Interesting Enemies For a Diagnostic Database

dlh writes: "Boston.com is carrying an article about Dr. Lawrence L. Weed's Problem Knowledge Coupler software. Apparently the medical profession is not exactly thrilled at the idea." Seems access to information is a positive thing, but certain doctors seem to feel threatened by this sort of database.

Comments

Too bad for MD's.

[Skyshadow]

Things like this are why I firmly believe in having no discernible useful function within my organization other than to slack and criticise others -- lets see some computer database duplicate *that*.

Re:Too bad for *all* geeks

[Tablizer]

(* Things like this are why I firmly believe in having no discernible useful function within my organization other than to slack and criticise others -- lets see some computer database duplicate *that*. *)

In a recent slashdot forum on an AI topic, I concluded that it is easier to automate "rational" things than it is irrational [1] things, like marketing and PHB's.

Thus, techies will probably be automated out of a job before PHB's and sales. (That is if H1B's don't do it first.)

Geeks are Doomed! Eat, drink, and skydive from space, for tomarrow you are unlayable gutter meat.

[1] I don't know whether they are irrational, or just very hard or impossible to ascertain the rules for.

Not true

[Anonymous Coward]

That's the beauty of the Natural Way. Your body knows what it needs. When it is replete with healing essence your desire to ingest more of Gaea's bounty will subside. There is no danger of overdose.

Most visits easy to automate

[Tablizer]

Most doctor visits that my kids and I have been to follow a rather simple algorithm:

1. Get swabs of patient mouth and ass
2. Perscribe patient antibiotics and
Codene.
3. Politely send patient away
4. Send swabs to lab
5. Play golf

Re:A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing

[Sloppy]

All we need is for normal people to type "headache, sneezing, aches, tiredness" into a computer and see things like Bubonic Plague, Ebola, Haunta Virus, and other such things. Nothing spreads panic and fear like a little knowledge.

And nothing calms people like routine. After I've had bubonic plague five times and Ebola twice, and always recovered after about a week, I don't panic anymore when I find out, "Oh darn, I've got flesh eating bacteria again?"

I guess what I'm saying is that people can be stupid once, but after a while, they'll either learn, or they'll go nuts. Then when the computer tells them that they've gnoe nuts, they'll learn to ignore the computer, who is, after all, just out to get them.