Always inquire regarding suicidal inclinations or attempts, threats of violence, assaults or homicidal tendencies.
Compare informant's statement with those given in the commitment certificate.
What treatment was given at home? Name of physician in attendance?
Date on which patient was taken to hospital.
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
I. GENERAL TYPE, APPEARANCE AND CONDITION:
1. Weight (with or without clothes).
2. Height and general frame.
3. Malformations (wherever possible state the origin); asymmetries of skull, face, body, spine, thorax; form of palate (low, high, asymmetrical, saddle or V-shaped, longitudinal torus).
Ears (adherent lobules, prominent anthelix, satyr-points, large, angle, asymmetry, length, etc.).