Doctors' bedside skills trump medical technology

Friday, December 18, 2009 - 11:14 in Health & Medicine

Sometimes, a simple bedside exam performed by a skilled physician is superior to a high-tech CT scan. A study has found that physicians' bedside exams did a better job than CT scans in predicting which patients would need to return to the operating room to treat serious complications.

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