The physical exam is useless

I have written before that the physical exam is useless in American medicine:

This is why the physical exam is useless in American medicine – it cannot hold up in court. Clinical evaluation and judgment skills now needs to be supported with objective, and often expensive, tests. Here we have a case of three separate physicians who, in their clinical opinion, did not feel a CT scan was warranted. …

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The physical exam is useless

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