MAKING ROUNDS
We spend almost a trillion dollars a year on high-tech tests and yet almost one fifth of patients are misdiagnosed. In this film we follow two prominent cardiologists getting it right, teaching future doctors the ‘old-fashioned’ art and science of a thorough bedside physical exam. "A great many diseases may be diagnosed", they tell us, "just by looking at a patient’s hand". Filmed over one month in the cardiac care unit of a top New York hospital, we see the doctors in action, correcting previous misdiagnoses, predicting outcomes, saving lives, demonstrating - in dramatic real-world situations -that simply looking at and listening to patients remains medicine’s most indispensable tool.
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