tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post5319042399725498296..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: MedInformaticsMD in WSJ again: No Patient Will Ever Say, 'Quick, Watson, the Needle!'Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-22157734606021579722011-03-04T15:16:28.970-05:002011-03-04T15:16:28.970-05:00I wonder why there are no suggestions of replacing...I wonder why there are no suggestions of replacing lawyers with computers.<br /><br />Perhaps Watson could be programmed to, say, determine if a proposed law is constitutional or not?<br /><br />Like medicine, that should be child's play, no?<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-76447475735377567672011-02-27T13:06:18.619-05:002011-02-27T13:06:18.619-05:00Quick, Watson, find a nurse; and find a doctor wit...Quick, Watson, find a nurse; and find a doctor with judgment. I am suffering from erroneous esoteric diagnoses and attendant tretament errors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-81362929920513968862011-02-26T18:42:04.193-05:002011-02-26T18:42:04.193-05:00I contend that any clinician with a Medical Inform...I contend that any clinician with a Medical Informatics or related background who's developed an information system meant for complex clinical settings should understand this description.<br /><br />The mono-disciplinary computer scientists and computer technicians making predictions of cybernetic miracles in medicine, sometime soon, don't know what they don't know.<br /><br />They&#InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-47240885999055557982011-02-25T18:56:45.021-05:002011-02-25T18:56:45.021-05:00This letter contains a fabulous description of the...This letter contains a fabulous description of the work of the effective clinician, and why the notion that Watson can substitute is folly. There are doctors who I have met who can recite facts like there is no tomorrow, but are useless as clinicians because of their failure to be gifted in the characteristics described in the letter. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com