Why Physical Examination Is More Important Than Ever.
In medicine skills are almost like a status symbol. Whether your colleagues will speak highly of you greatly depends on whether you are able to perform angiograms, ultrasound or other procedures. But there is one skill that you don’t get much credit for, even though it is indispensable: Physical Examination. Ask ten fourth-year-students, what they rather want: a lesson of lung auscultation or to visit the cath lab? More than likely nine of them will choose the cath lab. Let’s say you have
