What Are the Six Categories of Questions to Ask and Information

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Essay

What are the six categories of questions to ask and information to gain in the health history of a patient whose chief complaint is vertigo?

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Definitions:

Sexual Orientation

An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to men, women, both sexes, neither sex, or another sex.

Gender Identities

The personal sense of one's own gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, and can include non-binary or transgender identities.

Heterosexual

A term describing a person who is romantically or sexually attracted to individuals of the opposite sex.

Cisgender

A term for people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.