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Date Posted: 12:17:16 05/29/00 Mon
Author: serya
Subject: Re: "How is MS Diagnosed?"
In reply to: Jen 's message, ""How is MS Diagnosed?"" on 13:38:43 05/25/00 Thu

Thanks for the site information Jen. It is very interesting and seems to confirm what most of us already know. Seems like we all need to find a clinician with super diagnostic skills. Thanks for sharing. Serya

I found this very interesting. It's from the Immunex
> MS Knowledge Center.
>
> Here are a couple of small excerpts.
> "The clinical examination has three major parts:
> (1) History. The history includes not only the story
> of your symptoms and complaints, but also your general
> health, illnesses in your family, and other details.
> This is often the most important part of the
> examination. The neurologist often makes the diagnosis
> during this part of the assessment, even before the
> neurologic examination or diagnostic tests, which are
> most often used to confirm the neurologist's
> suspicions from the history."
> "the disease is suspected and ultimately diagnosed by
> the clinician's diagnostic skills"
>
> http://www.msknowledge.com/topics/how_diagnosed/how_dia
> gnosed2.htm
>
> The whole article is very informative
> What do you think?

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