28/12/2004
Ask the expert (system)
Would you like to be diagnosed by a computer instead of a physician? Most people would recoil only from the thought of it. It’s a reason for the popularity of alternative medicine: it’s much more personal than traditional medicin. But now comes Alex Tabarrok pointing to the benefits of an even more impersonal system than we already have. Here comes the machine:
Many people complain that medicine is too impersonal. I think it is not impersonal enough. I have nothing against my physician (a local magazine says he is one of the best in the area) but I would prefer to be diagnosed by a computer. A typical physician spends most of the day playing twenty questions. Where does it hurt? Do you have a cough? How high is the patient’s blood pressure? But an expert system can play twenty questions better than most people. An expert system can use the best knowledge in the field, it can stay current with the journals, and it never forgets.
Gepost door/Posted by: Ivan
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