It is a fact that the close association between disease diagnosis and remedial diagnosis prevailed in Modern medicine might not be observed in other holistic systems, however, diagnosis is having its own importance even in other systems. The mode of treatment might be either holistic treatment, specific treatment, symptomatic treatment and general life support to the patient. Modern medicine gives more importance to the precise treatment, whereas, systems like Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Siddha, Unani, Chinese medicine, Naturopathy etc. give more importance to the holistic notion of treatment, i. e. remedy section by thinking about the physical, mental and emotional characters and life situation of the sick individual.

However, in these systems also, disease diagnosis is equally important, because, under certain situations, the functioning of the affected organ or the machine of your body has to be backed up. The in-patient also may require some specific kind of support, for that your organ remedies can be deployed. As well as that, disease diagnosis is important for planning the condition control measures, prognosis, special precautions, to understand the life threatening situations, prevention of spreading of disease to others. Diagnosis is quite needed for statistics, research and also to fulfill the academic interests. Especially, due for some medico-legal reasons, the doctor should know the detailed health status of his patient. Due to all or any these reasons, disease diagnosis is crucial, irrespective of the machine of treatment directed at the patient.

Disease diagnosis and remedial diagnosis can be viewed as as the 2 sides of the exact same coin, hence, both are receiving equal importance. Disease diagnosis is completed by correlating the signs and outward indications of the patients (clinical features) with the information written by the bystanders and the lab investigation reports. On certain situations, there may be some difficulty in making a diagnosis, because, a number of diseases are experiencing almost similar clinical features. Moreover, rarely occurring diseases or a newly emerged disease might not be identified easily, especially by way of a general practitioner. Under such circumstances, a specialist's opinion might be needed. Very rarely, a group of doctors are involved in the process of diagnosis.

It is not possible to name each and every disease we come across inside our everyday practice. According to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), a notable percentage of diseases can't be named. In such cases, a diagnosis is possible regardless of having several health related symptoms in the patient. Since the individual is suffering, he has to be treated symptomatically. Some symptoms or conditions are wrongly understood as diseases by the laymen. For instance, clinical manifestations like jaundice, fever, vomiting, headache, malaise etc aren't diseases; but clinical manifestations of some diseases. The naming of diseases is done on several basis. All of the diseases are named after the one who invented that particular disease (Buerger's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Weil's disease), some diseases on the foundation of area where the disease is common or identified for initially (African sleeping sickness, Madhura foot, Japanese encephalitis), on the foundation of some peculiarity of the outward symptoms (Chikungunya), or on the basis of the organism responsible for the infection (Falsiparum malaria, Amoebic dysentery, Bacillary dysentery), or on the basis of the affected organ (Myocarditis, Nephritis, Appendicitis), on the cornerstone of cause(Alcoholic hepatitis, Wool-sorter's disease), on the foundation of age (Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Senile dementia), on the cornerstone of pathology(Mixed connective tissue disease, Mucopolyscaccharidosis)etc.

If several specific signs and symptoms are found in someone, it is named syndrome (Edward syndrome, Down syndrome, Laurence-moon syndrome). Nowadays, we hardly come across a patient having an individual disease, whereas nearly all of patients are experiencing a list of diseases such as for instance cardiovascular disease, diabetes, idiopathic hypertension, acid peptic disease, senile dementia, degenerative joint disease etc. Many diseases are classified under certain band of disorders. Like: Degenerative joint disorders, Inflammatory bowel disorders, Psychosomatic diseases, Lifestyle disorders etc. Here, each group includes several diseases, but are grouped together due for some common features such as pathological or etiological features.

When a person involves a doctor for initially, immediate disease diagnosis might not be possible due to various reasons. However, taking into consideration the presenting clinical features and history given by the in-patient, a doctor may come to a provisional disease diagnosis. After doing the laboratory investigations, the ultimate diagnosis is done by correlating the clinical findings with investigation reports. However the therapy is not kept in pending till the ultimate diagnosis, especially in case there is life threatening diseases such as for example diphtheria, wherein the procedure has to be started immediately when the disease is suspected, because, when we watch for the lab reports ahead, the individual may be critical. Some recent laboratory tests assist in early diagnosis, but unavailability of sophisticated labs doing such tests is really a major deficiency faced by many countries.

The development of science and technology has made a revolution in medical science. Now the idea of disease diagnosis done only on the cornerstone of clinical examination is outdated. It is now beneath the custody of some sophisticated machines and laboratory techniques, several out of them pose more risk to the health. But, the noteworthy point is, under all lab reports, a disclaimer is written as "correlate with clinical findings", which emphasizes the importance of case taking and clinical examination done by the doctor. In this era, wherein doctor-patient relationship is disrupted, we encounter many patients saying that the physician has abruptly prescribed the medicine or referred for lab test without asking much questions and doing any sort of clinical examination.

The recent studies conducted at Mc Master university on the disease diagnosis is remarkable. They unearthed that the name of the disease creates more panic among the patients. For instance, an individual having sour eructation may not feel bad when a doctor says he has acidity, on one other hand, he might get embarrassed if the doctor tells him he has Gastro-esophageal reflex disease, that will be the medical terminology for recurrent burning eructations. The same happens in most of the cancer patients; once the illness is diagnosed as cancer, the patients mental and emotional status starts deteriorating. But, a doctor cant hide the condition from the patient due to several medical and legal issues. The greater alternative would be to secretly tell the diagnosis to the bystanders of the patient.

For an accurate disease diagnosis, the cooperation from the patient and his members of the family is extremely essential. Each and every problem felt by the patient must be told to the doctor. Some silly matter for the individual may be a vital point for a diagnosis and treatment. Similarly, symptoms of long duration might be ignored by some patients. Purposeful hiding of symptoms can be dangerous. Some patients don't tell the doctor about the procedure he had taken previously. Frequent change of doctor (doctor shopping) can also cause difficulties. During consultation, patients habits, life situations, characters, food and bowel habits, relationship with others etc must be told. The reports of previous treatment and investigations must certanly be told, which may save enough time required for a diagnosis. Hence always require a discharge summary while getting discharged from any hospitals. While consulting a doctor, always take one person who knows concerning the patient. The patient may also note down his symptoms before choosing a consultation, so he will not forget to share with his symptoms completely. In this busy life, there's a trend that rather than patient going to the doctor, he sends somebody to the doctor for a "consultation ".Also there is an increase of people preferring over-the-counter purchase of drugs with no prescription.

Each time a patient dies or becomes serious throughout the length of treatment, the next step is always to file a suit against the doctor or by attacking the doctors and hospitals, as a result of an emotional outbreak and a preconceived proven fact that it had been due to medical negligence. Nowadays this is a common story in a lot of the news papers. By promoting the doctor-patient relation ship (which is deteriorating nowadays), and also by going back again to the "outdated" family doctor concept, we can solve all of the health related issues.