A good doctor doesn’t start with a scan. She starts with a conversation. What hurts, since when, does it get worse at night, has anything like this happened before, have other family members experienced something similar. This conversation has a name in medicine: anamnesis, from the Greek for “remembering” (the patient’s own account of their history and symptoms). Only once she has that story does she order tests. And only with that story in hand can she read the results correctly. A blood press