Making Rounds

Streaming video - 2016

We spend almost a trillion dollars a year on high-tech tests and yet almost one fifth of patients are misdiagnosed. In Making Rounds we are introduced to the power and superiority of methods of traditional diagnosis based on decades of experience, doctor-patient discussions, physical touch, and personal observation. We follow two prominent cardiologists getting it right, teaching future doctors the 'old-fashion' art and science of a thorough bedside physical exam. A great many diseases may be diagnosed, they tell us, just by looking at a patient's hand. Filmed over one month in the cardiac care unit of a top New York hospital, we see the doctors in action, correcting previous misdiagnoses, predicting outcomes, saving lives,... demonstrating - in dramatic real-world situations -that simply looking at and listening to patients remains medicine's most indispensable tool. more