General practitioners and family physicians who are the first point of
medical contact are very important for the health of a community.
However commercialization, corporatization, specialist reductionist
approach to health and increasing patient awareness and medicolegal
litigations have made general practice difficult. Investigations are
increasingly being ordered in defence against law suits apart from
diagnostic purposes. Radiology and imaging given its intrinsic quality
of being non invasive and informative they are one of the most
prescribed investigations.
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