Good point about the stats. doctors are supposed to be able to reconcile conflicting information They're supposed to wash their hands, too. (http://boingboing

Good point about the stats. doctors are supposed to be able to reconcile conflicting information They're supposed to wash their hands, too. (http://boingboing.net/2010/03/09/study-says-us-doctor.html http://boingboing.net/2010/03/09/study-says-us-doctor.html) As a guy who makes dozens of mistakes a day, the ones I know about because a computer catches them, I'm really not reassured by the idea that human judgement makes up for machine error.