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With more highly evolved and readily available technology at our fingertips, it is sometimes tempting to let the echocardiogram sort out the abnormal heart sounds we detected, or allow the pelvic ultrasound to inform whether the uterus is enlarged, or short-cut parts of the physical exam we anticipate to be unlikely sources of pertinent information.</p>
Why We Can’t Allow Physical Exam Skills to Languish
April 1, 2016
With more highly evolved and readily available technology at our fingertips, it is sometimes tempting to let the echocardiogram sort out the abnormal heart sounds we detected, or allow the pelvic ultrasound to inform whether the uterus is enlarged, or short-cut parts of the physical exam we anticipate to be unlikely sources of pertinent information.
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