Word: fallall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...patient exhales into an instrument that gauges lung functions, a computer program takes over. Named PUFF, it analyzes 250 factors that determine pulmonary dysfunction, then within 90 seconds issues a printout that may, in its own words, "indicate" or "suggest" what is wrong with the patient. Dr. Robert Fallal, the hospital's chief of pulmonary medicine, claims that in 85% of the cases, PUFF makes recommendations a doctor can use. "It is still rigid, and it has a problem with mixed diagnoses," says Fallat, "but it gives you time to concentrate on the remaining, challenging...
TIME (for the fallal fancy over Marching On, and the generosity of the Editorship with the roses...
| 1 |