Doctors will be replaced by computers. You enter your symptoms and the computer spits out a prescription.
“Doctors will be replaced by computers. You enter your symptoms and the computer spits out a prescription.”
Actually, I trust that more than an Affirmative Action trained doctor. My sister diagnosed our mom’s deadly disease via Google after her A.A. doctor told her she was “just getting old” and sent her packing. Sister saved her life; doctor didn’t want to be bothered.
[IBM's] Watson is almost there. All we need is enough "dumb" terminals and we're all set for health care Utopia.
“Doctors will be replaced by computers. You enter your symptoms and the computer spits out a prescription.”
Way too much biological variability and way too many holes in what we understand to be able to approach medical care with a computer algorithm. Computers can be very helpful, but ultimately, it’s really a ‘fuzzy’ logic based discipline. That doesn’t mean they won’t try, but people will get hurt.