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Aphorism 87

Explanation of Aphorism 87


Physician should not ask tag questions.

 After obtaining more precise information respecting each detail, without asking tag questions so that patient may not answer in affirmative or negative statement. He should not ask any suggestive question which has answer in itself as this answer could be misleading, either from indolence or in order to please his interrogator, from which a false picture of disease is formed resulting in unsuitable mode of treatment basing on this picture. 

In footnote Dr. Hahnemann says that physician should never be guilty of asking suggestive questions, which may seduce the patient into giving a false answer and a false account of his symptoms.

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