Probably. However, even with better technology, you still need someone to look beyond the superficial or obvious when a puzzle piece doesn’t fit. Accounts of late emphasize this. Wendy’s GP didn’t bother to even use a stethoscope on her wellness checks/physicals (not exactly 21st century technology) because she didn’t fit what she (GP) imagined the clinical picture of someone with “heart disease” to be. I’m assuming sufficient competency in discerning pathologic heart sounds and that aortic stenosis is detectable at a earlier stage than one that’s too severe for less invasive surgery (else how do folk get theirs detected soon enough for TAVR??)
Likewise me and my advancing coronary artery disease…simple add ons to the Usual Suspects on a lipid profile and a screening test that’s been around for far longer that I’ve been aware might well have had me on a primary prevention strategy long before my status moved from primary prevention. Two examples of folk appearing too healthy for their own good.
I seem to remember @intercst remarking on the distance he could walk with his Big Leg…and folk who ought to know better using this account asba diagnostic that there couldn’t be much wrong with him to be able to do that.
All excuses to weasel out of putting a bit of extra thought and effort into solving diagnostic conundrums, if you ask me…which you’d think would be something to grab hold of when so much of the day is the same old fat Sedentarian stuff.