Comments on: "Why listen when you can order a scan?" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/why-listen-when-you-can-order-scan.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/why-listen-when-you-can-order-scan.html#comment-79295 Anonymous Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/why-listen-when-you-can-order-a-scan.html#comment-79295 The only bright spot in the decline in medical professionalism is that now I, always mediocre in physical exam, can now be the brilliant diagnotician because I am often the only person to have actually looked and touched, and listened. The same is true of the history. It is so much easier now to be helpful as a consultant just by taking the history and asking what no one else bothered to ask.<br/><br/>Depressing. The only bright spot in the decline in medical professionalism is that now I, always mediocre in physical exam, can now be the brilliant diagnotician because I am often the only person to have actually looked and touched, and listened. The same is true of the history. It is so much easier now to be helpful as a consultant just by taking the history and asking what no one else bothered to ask.

Depressing.

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