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The usual casetaking is shorter for acute illness, comprehensive for chronic illness, and even more comprehensive for multimorbid patients (those with three or more illnesses). This is followed by an examination of the patient. If necessary, additional diagnostic procedures are initiated, such as the TSH assay for the patient discussed above in 1.4.2.1. It is fundamentally a good idea, before every homeopathic treatment, to make a precise conventional medical diagnosis, to avoid being surprised halfway through treatment by a complaint that was not included in the initial assessment of the case. (If the homeopath is not a physician, the patient’s physician should order all the appropriate tests and make the diagnosis before homeopathic treatment starts.) Only when the diagnosis has been clarified and it is clear that homeopathy is a suitable treatment for the patient can the actual treatment begin. In the next step the casetaking is supplemented with modalities and polar symptoms, elicited as comprehensively as possible. For acute illness we provide checklists; for chronic illness there are questionnaires available.