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Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors
kkleiner writes "Following its resounding victory on Jeopardy!, IBM's Watson has been working hard to learn as much about medicine as it can with a steady diet of medical textbooks and healthcare journals. In a recent demonstration to the Associated Press, Watson showed a promising ability to diagnose patients. The demonstration was a success, and it is the hope of IBM and many medical professionals that in the coming years Watson will lend doctors a helping hand as they perform their daily rounds."
So Watson, having ingested all the knowledge of "The System" will now do its bidding. Instead of an MD saying "You need pain medication and anti-inflamatories", it will be Watson suggesting it.
Will Watson suggest "Check for a vertebral subluxation at C5/6?" Nope, and therein lies the sinister problem. Watson has all sorts of MD-type knowledge in it, but I'll wager it hasn't scanned in one single issue of The Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research or other alt-med journal. It's being stuffed with "science" and not those things just beyond and not yet explained.
Will Watson have scanned in all those excellent Chiropractic YouTube videos? Some of those have dozens of thumbs-up from other Chiropractors. No, even though all those thumbs-up mean something: that is peer review!
Take care,
Bob
Chiropractic Saves Lives!
Lupus can be treated with aggressive chiropractic adjustments. You will find that Lupus sufferers are chronic hosts to nervous system issues. 2-7 visits for the first several weeks while the subluxations and Lupus symptoms subside.
Interestingly, it's similar to the treatment for Fibromyalgia and colic.
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