Ten out of Ten: “While the justification to withhold testing tends to be nebulous and distant, the reasons to just go ahead and order the scan are anything but, surrounding me in the ER. And while no one has ever thanked me for not ordering a test, failing to order one on the wrong patient would result in people lining up to publicly speculate as to how I could possibly practice such bad medicine.”
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