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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Having the patient describe the pain is merely a part of diagnosis.
If the Doctor suspects a certain type of injury or condition based on what the patient describes then they can order diagnostics like imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, etc) or various tests like Blood analysis or even physical analysis like moving a joint and seeing how the patient reacts.
It’s by combining all of this information and comparing to a known list of conditions and diseases that a Doctor is able to make a diagnosis and then recommend treatment.
If the treatment doesn’t work, then they can try something else.
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