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Choose Wisely: Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning Over Technological Expediency

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If a patient presented to the hospital with a serum calcium level of 19 mg/dL, what would you do next? From presentation to management, you may have little time to evaluate if the patient resembles “stones, bones, groans, and psychiatric overtones.” Rather than refining clinical data acquisition and following a step-wise workup, proceeding immediately to imaging could appear most...