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100 years ago: Neglecting rectal examination leads to late diagnosis. Practitioner March 2022;266(1856):30

100 years ago: Neglecting rectal examination leads to late diagnosis

25 Mar 2022Registered users

Too often one finds that a doctor has been in attendance for some weeks without having made any attempt to examine the bowel, with the result that some gross error in diagnosis has been made. The patient naturally resents such maltreatment when he discovers, as he must do, that the condition might have been found much earlier. 

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