Verghese: There has been a whole area of scholarship on taking individual aspects of the exam, just one sign, and then talking about specificity and sensitivity and operator characteristics. We’re taking all these pieces of information together and coming up with something.

There is something to that but we never do that in isolation.

In praise of the physical examination BY ABRAHAM VERGHESE AND RALPH HORWITZ It provides reason and ritual If an alien anthropologist were to visit a modern teaching hospital, "it" might conclude that, judging by where doctors spend most of their time, the business of an internal medicine service takes place around computer terminals. His dedication to the art of the physical exam led … We emphasize the importance of the physical exam and how it can help care for your patient and also create an environment where the person you are caring for develops trust. Professor of medicine and best-selling author ABRAHAM VERGHESE is a strong advocate for “hands-on” medicine. In a recent feature piece for The New York Times, Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP addresses “the threat that electronic health records (EHRs) and machine learning pose to physicians’ clinical judgment – and their well-being.”Citing anecdotal evidence and quantitative analyses, Verghese describes the despair on both sides of the hospital bed and connects physician burnout and …

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