Definitely! And clotting screen seems to have become
routine, here at least. I teach them that blood tests seldom make the slightest
difference to decision making, but they still do them (& then wait 2 hours
for the result), and sometimes then ignore an important result! They are acting
more & more like housemen.
Philip
Belsham, Royal Free.
I've noticed in recent years that juniors are
adding C Reactive Protein to their "routine blood investigations". We
check the blood results on all patients who have been discharged without
follow up and it is a definite trend. Predictably it doesn't seem to effect
the management of cases.
Are others also finding this?
Ray McGlone
Lancaster A&E
