Georgetown's Undergrad Jake Ripp Researches the Heart and Soul of Medicine - The Physical Exam

Within the context of high tech medicine, the physical exam has seemingly lost its esteemed place in medicine. Medicine's gravamen the past 100 years has been what the history and physical exam revealed by an astute clinician.

The lost art of medicine has rapidly been toppled by computerized lab and imaging. However medical purists feel the answer to our medical problems lay within the fundamental history and physical - completed by mostly primary care physicians and ancillary providers.

A "hands on" physical is considerably more cost effective than all the lab and MRIs/CT scans a hospital can provide. Read Jake Ripp's award winning article which takes us on a well researched journey into the physical exam. Jake's article is published within John Hopkin's online blog, "The Triple Helix OnLine."

Jake is a senior at Georgetown with present plans for a primary care career emphasizing fundamental physical exams, physician education and plant diet research. He is involved in a summer project, "Green County Project," a large research endeavor over decades designed to have doctors prescribe patients' food while being physically present within the grocery store.

Jake plays year round sports within Georgetown's fraternity leagues.