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Doctors use many ordinary and specialized skills and equipment, such as:

  • their brains and education
  • their hands to palpate, e.g. feel, the body
  • their senses - sight, hearing, smell
  • their compassion
  • stethoscope for heart, breath, and bowel sounds
  • otoscope for ears and nose
  • tongue depressor, to check mouth, teeth, throat
  • "rubber hammer" to check reflexes
  • medications and other treatments
  • tests for diagnostics
  • ability to interpret tests
  • ability to do non-surgical procedures or surgeries
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