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Leaving clinical practice without leaving medicine

There was a time when my daily work meant sitting across from a patient in an exam room. I listened to symptoms, asked questions, performed physical examinations, ordered laboratory tests, tried to arrive at a diagnosis, and then prescribed medicine.…

There was a time when my daily work meant sitting across from a patient in an exam room. I listened to symptoms, asked questions, performed physical examinations, ordered laboratory tests, tried to arrive at a diagnosis, and then prescribed medicine. Today, my world looks very different. The person sitting across from me has been replaced by a screen. Instead of examining patients, I examine datasets, clinical trial tables and listings, …

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Leaving clinical practice without leaving medicine