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Podcast: Dr. Chapa’s OBGYN Clinical Pearls
Episode: To CBE or Not to CBE
Description: Recently, we released an episode regarding the limited utility of by BMEs; now, I mean, limited utility as a routine, annual exercise in the low-risk asymptomatic, and non-pregnant patient. And there’s plenty of evidence that has shown that just doing a bimanual exam because “that’s what we’ve always done” -without a real indication- is just not helpful. All to say, we received numerous comments regarding that episode with 99% saying, “this is great”, “thank you for sticking with the evidence”, and “yes, we stopped doing bimanual exams without indication, when the ACOG first put that out several years back”. But of course...