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I will not be happy the day I go to the E.R. with some emergency and I have to talk to a machine...

• adrianN 12y ago
  "Please state the nature of the medical emergency..." It depends on how sophisticated the machine is, I think. Doctors make mistakes all the time.
• Scoundreller 12y ago
  So if we had evidence that a machine was more effective or made better decisions (or had better all-cause mortality evidence) than a human clinician, you would choose the human clinician in all cases? How is this any different than comparing Drug A to Drug B? You should choose the one that's more effective (and/or cheaper), why should emotion or the human-touch get into it? Having said that, if you're paying the bill yourself, go nuts, but I'm in an environment where the public foots most of these bills, and therefore has some say in my opinion.
  • mtdewcmu 12y ago
    The human clinician would (hopefully) be operating the machine.