[wfunction]

> > Doctors order tests to help them choose the right treatments. > No they don't, except in very rare cases. Doctors order tests to make a diagnosis. The treatment follows from that.

What I said didn't contract what you said. If test => diagnosis => treatment then test => treatment.

[tsotha]

Without a diagnosis, how could a doctor possibly know the answer to the question "what happens if we do nothing"?

[wfunction]

I never said without a diagnosis.

[tsotha]

It's pretty rare to arrive at a diagnosis without tests.