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[Blog] Symptom Checkers vs Physical Exams - The Diagnostic Gap
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This blog examines the growing use of online symptom checkers, highlighting their utility as triage tools while stressing their fundamental limitation: the absence of a physical examination. It explains how these digital tools gather information through questionnaires but lack the crucial diagnostic details gained through visual assessment, palpation, auscultation, percussion, and neurological testing, leading to lower accuracy rates compared to physician evaluations.
21 episodes
Manage episode 479660035 series 3272380
This podcast was created using Notebook LM.
This blog examines the growing use of online symptom checkers, highlighting their utility as triage tools while stressing their fundamental limitation: the absence of a physical examination. It explains how these digital tools gather information through questionnaires but lack the crucial diagnostic details gained through visual assessment, palpation, auscultation, percussion, and neurological testing, leading to lower accuracy rates compared to physician evaluations.
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