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Your doctor may ask the following questions when reviewing your medical status if you have a terminal illness:
- What other health problems do you have? Other diagnoses?
- What medications, drugs or treatments are you now taking?
- What treatment options have you been given? Curative, major interventions, or comfort care and hospice?
- Do you live in an urban or rural area? This may affect care options.
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Diagnostic Procedures
Allergy tests, echocardiograms, biopsies, semen analysis and spinal taps are just a few of the medical diagnostic procedures that are performed on patients diagnose diseases and conditions. These classification procedures do not i...
nvolve x-ray imaging or a surgical procedure, but, involve taking measurements and samples of fluids, tissues and cells. Learn more about diagnostic procedures from our experts.
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