Prime time to resuscitate clinical medicine and kill diagnostic greed?
Modern healthcare faces the challenges of rising costs, increasing expectations of patients and changing disease patterns. Physicians practise medicine in an era of easy availability and access to a plethora of modern and sometimes expensive diagnostic aids. The powerful utility of clinical skills cannot be underestimated nor lost. The physician has a powerful platform to encourage the rational use of tests, prevent wasteful overutilisation and ensure that tests do not cause more harm than benefit in physical, emotional or financial terms. Diagnostic skills should not be substituted by diagnostic greed. It is possible to do more for the patient rather than to the patient.
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D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010820:Physicians; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends
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