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Heh, yeah. It is traditional. And ineffective (of course). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1
by bitexploder 8y ago
Heh, yeah. It is traditional. And ineffective (of course).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071072/
I was kind of out of it. Maybe there was a lot of pain, but my memory of it was just so much discomfort, what is something minor like that?
- thomasfedb 8y agoThat's an excellent article you link - to paraphrase the conclusion: digital rectal examination should not be performed routinely for abdominal pain, but should be considered an investigation to consider when diagnosis is unclear.
- bitexploder 8y agoThanks. I guess it isn’t fair to say it is ineffective, it can give some information.