Many people do not go to the hospital for this general headache and fever, and feel better when they treat themselves. When there is a disease that they cannot control, they often turn to a doctor, and this is the first hurdle to describe their illness to the doctor. Many people are not sure how to describe their illness, and some people are misdiagnosed due to their own misrepresentation. Describing your illness to your doctor is the first step in the process of seeing a doctor, and although it is often only a few words, it is very important. Here are a few examples from physicians. 1. Fever and cough for 3 days: The first impression given to the doctor is that the illness is of the upper respiratory tract, probably a cold. 2.Fever and cough for 10 days: the first impression given to the doctor is a recurrent upper respiratory tract infection or a problem with the lower respiratory tract, such as pneumonia. 3. High fever for two days – the first impression given to the doctor is an acute infection, and it is necessary to continue to pursue other accompanying symptoms in detail to figure out where the infection is occurring. Note that the following kinds of opening statements to describe the condition are not correct enough. Doctor asks: Hello, how are you not feeling well? The patient answers: Doctor, I have a cold! This narrative is not clear. First of all, there are different symptoms of cold, such as fever, headache, cough, runny nose, sore throat, etc. Doctors have to select medication according to the symptoms and treat the symptoms. If the patient does not tell the symptoms, it is difficult for the doctor to write a reasonable prescription; secondly, the patient’s self-judgment is often not always correct, so if the doctor prescribes you medicine according to your description, it is likely to delay the condition. Therefore, when the doctor asks you where you are not feeling well, you only need to tell the doctor your discomfort (symptoms), such as fever, cough, headache, abdominal pain, etc. The doctor will then decide what to ask next based on your symptoms. Another example is when you are looking for a cough and describe your illness to the doctor. The patient answers: “For a long time”, or “I cough when I have a cold”. These answers are not good for the doctor’s diagnosis. If the cough is short, the doctor often considers a cold; if the cough is long, the doctor will consider asthma, bronchiectasis or tuberculosis. In particular, answers such as “I cough when I get a cold” do not provide any clues to the doctor, because normal people “cough when they get a cold” and the key question is how long each “cold” lasts and how many times a year they “cough”. The key question is how long each “cold” lasts and how many “colds” there are in a year. If some people describe themselves to the doctor as having a cold for a month, this is obviously inaccurate. Because the natural course of a cold cannot be as long as a month. In fact, some patients tend to have several colds in a month “together”; some people have a cold and complications of rhinitis, paranasal sinusitis, or as a “cold has not been cured”. Another example is that I see old stomach problems. This is the disease as a symptom, in fact, the old stomach disease patients may have chronic gastritis, ulcer disease, gastric cancer, gallstone disease or cholecystitis and other different diseases. The opening statement is not delivered correctly enough for different reasons. Some patients do not know how to describe their medical history; many patients think they are “self-informed” and are impatient to talk more. This may cause the doctor to delay the diagnosis, or even cause a misdiagnosis. Some patients may think that the doctor does not need the patient to describe the patient, the doctor has the ability to see at a glance or listen with the earpiece can be. I do not know, regardless of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, are concerned about the look, smell, ask, cut, only then can more accurately determine the condition. There are also many chronic patients who think they have become good doctors for a long time and do not want to talk about their condition at all, but only ask for medication. However, self-perception does not reflect the real situation of the disease, when seeking medical description of the disease, or should be carefully answered according to the doctor’s questions. When describing the condition, in addition to the opening statement, you should also explain the development and changes of the symptoms, whether there are other accompanying symptoms, whether the disease is “new” or “old”, what medication has been used, and how effective it is, as well as the appetite, stool and urine condition.