ABSTRACT
P. Joseph Cherian and Kurupath Radhakrishnan “Careful history taking and interpreting, and minute and repeated clinical ex
aminations are time consuming. It is particularly the busy physician who is inclined to delegate the diagnosis to the laboratory in the vain hope of saving time. Labora tory procedures often seem necessary because the clinical examination has not been adequate. They are all too often superfluous, and a thorough clinical examination would have provided grounds for correct management of the patient. The more clinical neurology we know, the less need there is for laboratory procedures and more valuable these procedures become when they are necessary.”
