All of this may be reassuring to the person who undergoes the testing and then gets a clean bill of health. But recently this mass screening of healthy people has come under criticism. The problem may be that not enough positive findings turn up, except where expected, to justify the whole procedure in terms of money and manpower.

Where a patient has specific symptoms for which a doctor cannot find enough evidence to make a diagnosis, he should carry out specific tests, usually one or two at a time, to find out what is going on. Ordering a whole battery of tests may save time but often means many are ordered unnecessarily and this may be expensive.

The Australian Medical Association has recently reaffirmed its policy that multiphasic health screening of healthy persons should not attract a subsidy from the Government or the health funds but the cost of it should be totally borne by the individual.

This opinion is not shared by all doctors and some are wholeheartedly in favor of screening of healthy people and believe early disease may thus be detected before symptoms make themselves known.

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