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from S A Hughes <[log in to unmask]> contains these words:
> What you do not want is a checklist based system where there are twenty
> items to check for each of up to twenty differential diagnoses, followed
> by waiting for the results of multiple tests.
Too true. Unforunately not all I know would agree.
> I think you will be hard pushed to beat old fashioned clinical
> judgement.
Agreed. I am a Staff Grade in a minor unit which has X-rays and ECGs
but no laboratories on site. I send *very* few blood tests and base
my decisions on 'old fashioned clinical judgement'. I am sure I am
more efficient without blood tests.
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Helen D. Vecht
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Somewhere around North-West London
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