Medicine’s Fall From Grace: When is an exam not an exam?
5 min readJun 26, 2019
“Well, we could send you for a bone density test, but I don’t know if they’ll pay for it. You can only get one every two years.” So said a physician to a patient taking medication that would affect her bones. The quandary may not seem inordinate immediately but think about it. How is it prudent to…