What Is Medical Diagnosis?
A medical diagnosis (Greek dia = apart; gnosis = knowledge, insight), short Dx, is the physician’s conclusion about which disease, disorder, injury or state his patient is affected by.
Only a registered physician can give a medical diagnosis. Other health workers (nurses, technicians) and non-medical specialists, even those with Dr. or PhD in their titles, can not and may not give a medical diagnosis.
Diagnostic procedure includes asking a patient for symptoms by taking a medical history, finding signs of the disease by a physical examination, checking results of medical investigations and making conclusion from obtained data.
