highwayscribery,

Your point is well taken, simplicity is usually best and all that is often needed to make an appropriate diagnosis. Unfortunately, we have become slaves to a system that punishes physicians for failing to run a battery of sophisticated tests to confirm what what may be self-evident. But "defensive medicine" has become the norm. If we could reform the malpractice system to eliminate all the unnecessary tests, it has been estimated we could pay the premiums for all 46 million uninsured individuals in the U.S.

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