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Legal implications of routine screening for asymptomatic silent myocardial ischemia
L G Smith1, R E Brennan, K H Dooley
1Department of Medicine, Saint Michael's Medical Center, Newark 07102.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
A recent case in California raises legitimate concern about the risks of a lawsuit arising out of a routine physical examination. This ruling has an ominous portent for many physicians who either are not current or are not comfortable with the available testing procedures for screening asymptomatic patients for silent myocardial ischemia.