Today's New York Times has a story about a physician, Dr. Abraham Verghese, who is trying to get medical students to understand the importance of listening to patient symptoms and physically examining their patients rather than relying on technology which is expensive, takes time , exposes patients to potentially dangerous levels of radiation to sometimes have unnecessary surgery.
Please read the article for yourself at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/health/12profile.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB
See, I am not the only one who thinks that medicine and dentistry are in decline and perhaps the old ways are still the best ways.