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Observation: Body System Approach

• Gastrointestinal: Appetite, digestion, food intolerance, dysphagia,

heartburn, nausea or vomiting, bowel regularity, change in stool

color, or contents, constipation or diarrhea, flatulence or

haemorrhoids

• Genitourinary: Dysuria, flank or suprapubic pain, urgency, frequency,

nocturia, hematuria, polyuria, hesitancy, loss in force of stream,

edema, sexually transmitted disease