Rajasoorya C
Singapore Med J. 2016 Sep;57(9):473-5. doi: 10.11622/smedj.2016151.
Modern healthcare faces the challenges of rising costs, increasing expectations of patients and changing disease patterns. Physicians practise medicine in an era of easy availability and access to a plethora of modern and sometimes expensive diagnostic aids. The powerful utility of clinical skills cannot be underestimated nor lost. The physician has a powerful platform to encourage the rational use of tests, prevent wasteful overutilisation and ensure that tests do not cause more harm than benefit in physical, emotional or financial terms. Diagnostic skills should not be substituted by diagnostic greed. It is possible to do more for the patient rather than to the patient.
现代医疗保健面临着成本上升、患者期望增加以及疾病模式不断变化的挑战。医生在一个现代且有时昂贵的诊断辅助工具唾手可得的时代行医。临床技能的强大作用不可低估或被忽视。医生拥有一个强大的平台来鼓励合理使用检查、防止浪费性的过度使用，并确保检查在身体、情感或经济方面不会造成弊大于利的情况。诊断技能不应被诊断贪婪所取代。有可能为患者做更多有益之事，而非仅针对患者进行检查。
