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Surveys suggest that time constraints push doctors to spend less time with the patient and more time documenting records. Important as documentation may be, it ends up with a waste of unnecessary investigations that could have been avoided had the doctor spent more time with the patient; taking a detailed history and doing a thorough examination. Many times we have been forced to look for Malarial parasites in smears from afebrile patients, or do bone marrow aspirations of thrombocytopenic patients (with low platelet counts) only to find platelet clumps on peripheral smears.
Have you ever done an investigation that you thought was unnecessary?
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