eli5: How do doctors decide wether their patients tell the right location of their pain and how they experience it so that they can make a decision?

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eli5: How do doctors decide wether their patients tell the right location of their pain and how they experience it so that they can make a decision?

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Well, the doctor will assume that you have no reason to lie; like, why would you say you have a headache when your *stomach* is what’s hurting?

But pain is only ONE indication that there’s a problem, and the doctor will NEVER rely on just pain to make a diagnosis. The doctor always orders more tests, blood samples, x-rays, what have you, and they make their diagnosis based on THAT, not just on what the patient says.