Abstract:
It is standard medical student teaching that history
taking forms the foundation on which the diagnostic
process stands. The different components of the
history are vital for pronouncing prognosis too. In
addition, in the field of paediatrics, the social history
and birth history are of predictive value for the final
outcome of childhood itself. It is however important
that paediatricians, adept as they may be at eliciting
history, are never prophetic. It is in this light that
these histories are reproduced for your consideration.
