1. A system for automated medical diagnosis of a patient, the system comprising: a first medical symptom element having an actual symptom weight for a first disease and an alternative symptom weight for a second disease; a second medical symptom element having an actual symptom weight for the second disease; and a function configured to apply the actual weight for the first medical symptom element to a first diagnostic score and the alternative weight to a second diagnostic score, wherein the first diagnostic score is associated with the first disease and the second diagnostic score is associated with the second disease, and wherein the function continues diagnostic scoring by applying actual symptom weights for the second disease to the second diagnostic score.