When did every clinical correlation become a query for causation?
Not every association in the medical record establishes a causal relationship. Yet physicians are increasingly asked to clarify whether one condition caused another simply because the relationship hasn’t been explicitly documented.
If the clinical evidence supports a causal relationship, clarify it when necessary. But if it doesn’t, why should the physician have to spend time documenting the absence of one?
A query should clarify the clinical story, not manufacture a relationship—or create work simply because a relationship wasn’t documented.
The question isn’t whether we can query. It’s whether we should.