To the Editor: General practitioners increasingly find themselves facing lawsuits for delay in diagnosis. Having personally been asked to be an expert witness in a number of cases, I have perceived a common theme. The cases generally turn on whether a particular investigation such as a computed tomography (CT) scan should have been ordered, based on the clinical presentation.
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