Point of Care: Bedside Diagnostic Testing

You are seeing a patient in your office on his first visit. How much more would you be able to tell this patient if you received his lab results just minutes after completing his physical? How would this prospect augment practice in an emergency department? Dr. W. Frank Peacock, chair of emergency preparedness at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, speaks with host Dr. Shira Johnson about a simple idea that could mark an important change in the practice of medicine.