Patient Empowerment
When Less Testing Means Better Medicine: Understanding Why Personalized Risk Guides Today's Screening Decisions
A quiet but consequential revolution is reshaping how American physicians order — and decline to order — diagnostic tests. Driven by precision medicine principles and evolving clinical guidelines, the era of one-size-fits-all screening is giving way to a more nuanced, risk-stratified approach. Understanding the clinical logic behind these changes can help patients become more effective partners in their own care.