Data, data everywhere

2013; Volume: 346; Issue: feb04 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.f725

ISSN

1756-1833

Autores

Des Spence,

Tópico(s)

Ethics in Clinical Research

Resumo

A news story ran just after I was accepted to university. Scientists were testing a computer that made clinical diagnoses, and it was predicted that doctors would be replaced by robots within the decade. It never happened, though many now joke that doctors have indeed been replaced by mindless robots and just follow flowcharts of care. Medicine is complex, and experience teaches us that blind adherence to any clinical guideline or algorithm always ends in tears. Today’s technological leap is “big …

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