What procedure do doctors follow to make a diagnosis?

First check the patient’s age, the gender, the body mass index, occupation, level of
physical activity, life experiences, smoking habits, alcohol use, history of any prior
medical problems, and even the personality of that patient matter. After you know
your patient very well you move on and analyze the particular symptom in detail,
not just take that symptom on its face value to make the diagnosis. So, you ask:
where exactly it started, what kind of pain was it, what made it worse, what made it
better, how long did it last and whether it was a constant or intermittent.
I consider that it is very important to know some important factors about the
patient before making the diagnosis, especially all those things that can
influence his daily life and that can be precipitating factors of a disease.