Name: Data, data everywhere
Creator: Des Spence
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Databases, Factual, Data Mining, Humans, 0101 mathematics, 01 natural sciences, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 04 Feb 2013 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 346, pages f725-f725 (eissn: 1756-1833,

Authors: Des Spence;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.f725

pmid: 23381205

Data, data everywhere

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A news story ran just after I was accepted to university. Scientists were testing a computer that made clinical diagnoses, and it was predicted that doctors would be replaced by robots within the decade. It never happened, though many now joke that doctors have indeed been replaced by mindless robots and just follow flowcharts of care. Medicine is complex, and experience teaches us that blind adherence to any clinical guideline or algorithm always ends in tears. Today’s technological leap is “big …

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Databases, Factual, Data Mining, Humans

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