The modern scientific physician: 6. The useful property of a screening regimen.

The modern scientific physician faces challenges in conceptualizing the desired, useful properties of diagnostics and interventions, especially as to what measures of the respective useful properties (s)he rationally is to deploy in practice. But (s)he is, at least, quite clear on what diagnostics

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