The Consequences of Ordering a LOT of Tests

There's a lit of a difference in your minsa if you start to see history taking and physical examination, not just as screening, but also potentially as confirmatory tasks. And there are consequences to practising medicine the other way, which is just ordering a bunch of unnecessary tasks. So they all are data points, as you mention, brandon. They're all tests, and th you have a pretest probability. All associated with likelihood ratios, you know, physical findings, just like ou kno labtes. But those can all be kind of tools in your arsenal, if you, if you see them that way.