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It's not ignoring them, it's providing a more useful and very cheap diagnostic test to handle the likely case where the patient is suffering from something which can respond better to time and patience than poking and prodding.

If the patient was old, morbidly obese, had a history of heart attacks, was scratching at an tingly left arm, or something like this, I'm sure the doc would go ahead with the other tests.

If the patient is young (as stated in the hypothetical) and otherwise in good shape, giving them a second to baseline is completely reasonable and better for them.



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