A system and method for documenting a medical history of a patient including presenting a first graphical user interface having a graphics and text based selection for taking in medical history data, the graphics based selection includes a numeric pad superimposed on a human body; monitoring alarming information contained in said selection; presenting a second graphical user interface having icons depicting pain or symptom in certain areas of a body and a selection box for each of the depicted pain or symptom; tracking symptoms, not diseases; presenting a third graphical user interface having icons with corresponding response boxes configured to question and obtain responses regarding a medical health history; and presenting a fourth graphical user interface having icons depicting current health conditions and selection boxes for each of the depicted current health conditions to obtain at least one response regarding said current health condition.