- The art of history taking improves the doctor patient relationship leading to convenient and comfortable treatment - The book explains the importance of history taking in each and every case - It includes new chapters of fever, hematology and elaborate details given on evaluation and documentation of the main complaints stated by a patient. Clarifies doubts about the leading questions - A new entity entitled community history has been added in recording history of a case along with the family history - Explains cases where history taking is more important than getting detailed laboratory based investigations for medical, surgical, gynecological or in other fields.