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Remember Mycin? Great expert system to support doctors. Never really used because people where afraid about ethical and legal issues. While this is not the sam
by marcocampos 17y ago
Remember Mycin? Great expert system to support doctors. Never really used because people where afraid about ethical and legal issues.
While this is not the same, how long before someone gets hurt because some article was not totally correct or something similar? Someone decides to blame Wikipedia or something like that and puff, all other doctors stop using it for fear of being put in a similar situation.
I, for one support the use of additional information from sources like Wikipedia. Anyone remember that girl who self-diagnosed herself when all the doctors before couldn't figure out what was wrong with her? It shows that decent information that's peer reviewed constantly and with high availability can be a great asset.
Let's hope people star trusting technology more in situations like this.
- pmorici 17y agoCan't be much worse than a doctor not knowing the answer and making a wild guess. We place way to much implicit trust in medical professionals and esp. doctors. Look at how many crappy IT workers are out there I've got to believe that the medical field can't be much different.