Word: physician
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...answer may be yes, according to a team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. The researchers report in the American Journal of Medicine that they have taught a computer to exercise virtually the same clinical judgment that a physician must use in choosing a form of treatment. In the process, they have learned more about how doctors make such decisions...
Look Ahead. A first-stage result of their study is a computer program that duplicates some of the mental processes of a highly skilled physician. Using acute kidney failure as an experimental model, the research group programmed the machine to weigh the risks and benefits of various tests and treatments and to consider such factors as the patient's attitude toward surgery. "We find it is like playing chess," says Schwartz. "Doctors don't make just one isolated move, they have to look ahead at what else is likely to happen...
John B. Bennet, lecturer on Business Administration, his wife Faye A. Bennet, and Dr. Stanley E. Sagov, assistant physician to the University Health Services at the Business School, told a Cambridge Forum audience of the hardships cancer patients and their relatives must go through...
...Many things in a physician's life are painful; doctors are fundamentally unhappy," Sagov said, because they are expected to be more than human. "Medicine is still an imprecise science," said Sagov, "and relations between human beings should not change when the doctor is dispensing medical expertise...
Eisenberg himself came from a middle-class Philadelphia family, and entered the University of Pennsylvania convinced he wanted to be a doctor but with "a very vague and idealized notion of what the physician's role was going to be." He went on to Penn's medical school, where he graduated first in his class. "I had a lot of trouble getting in because those were the days when there was a numerus clausus on Jews," he recalls now. "It left a strong impression on me which I don't intend to forget and hope I never forget, because that...