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- Page navigation anchor for Is best practice the safest practice?Is best practice the safest practice?It will always be a dilemma between the physicians when and how to investigate and when just to reassure with watchful waiting, as we are always not just acting and responding to patient's anxieties but our very own. Though it is not rocket science, the more one is knowledgeable in certain matters it would direct you towards the appropriate plan of investigations or management, but there is a catch, one can be over confident and missing certain unrecognisable patterns in the early stages of disease can be falsely reassuring to one. One can always claim or be comfortable in the fact when patient presented in hindsight, there were not much physical signs or the history didn't fit in! But we have to put the question to us genuinely did we take the proper history or did we miss any signs?We should accept the fact as science is advancing more and more each passing day, investigations would overcome clinical examination, with patient anxiety and need to know culture even if we feel its not significant but with unclear answers, investigations are and would be increasingly required and the doctor who requests them more is not necessarily wrong or worse as a matter of fact. He might be picking up more diseases or at least deficiencies as we have increasingly found with Vitamin D!Competing Interests: None declared.