Selected Lectures in Internal Medicine for M.D. Students.Part I. Introduction. Patient Interviewing and Complaints

This publication opens a series of authorial lectures devoted to questions of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases, primarily based on the material of cardiovascular, endocrine and bronchopulmonary pathology. Propedeutics is widely interpreted by authors as an Introduction to Internal Medicine; therefore, these lectures also contain clinical pathophysiological material. The lectures compare the achievements and traditions of Russian traditional therapeutic school with the principles of Internal Medicine that have evolved in the practice of foreign medical education. The first lecture is devoted to doctor-patient communication as regards to patient’s interview and complaints interpretation.