Why doctors ask number of questions to vitiligo patients?

When the patient of Vitiligo goes to a doctor, it is widely and usually seen that the doctors begins asking a number of questions to the patient before prescribing a treatment. The common thing comes up to the mind as to why this happens? This takes place because each patient has different situation among many possibilities which typify the complicated disease, vitiligo’.

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