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Why it's time to question medical traditions

The Podcast by KevinMD

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The Role of Ritual in the Exam Room

When you question medical tradition, by definition, you're questioning the status quo. We need to make sure that we're doing exams because we're doing meaningful diagnostic testing and not because we just examine patients every day for the sake of examining them. Just because these traditions are the status quo, doesn't mean they should continue to be. These are ballots between rationality and a lot of the symbolic things that physicians do.

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