Singapore medical journal
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Singapore medical journal · Sep 2016
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. ⋯ Diagnostic skills should not be substituted by diagnostic greed. It is possible to do more for the patient rather than to the patient.