It has been quite an experience to see things change. When I was in Med School our Clinical Med professor was a fat old German who went to Med School in Germany during WWII. He insisted that clinical medicine did not require any labs or radiology studies. A clinical physician could make any diagnosis with the tools attached to his body, hands, eyes, ears, etc. and the most powerful tool was the one between the ears. I fear today medical students learn only who to order tests and follow algorithms.
The surgeons I learned from were maestros of skill and Michaelangelos in flesh. Their skill produced results today’s technicians cant emulate because today we produce technicians who can only reproduce “average” results.
My neurology professor railed that the CT would ruin clinical neurology.
He was right.
He was a former Chetnik and hated the Left with a passion. Told us horror stories of the Communist takeover of Yugoslavia .