Bruce

If you check the reference below that raises other issues over medicine's increasing reliance on computers for diagnosis. 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23310

David Gaynon
Huntington Beach CA USA

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This was in yesterday's Washington Post.

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In a health-care debate characterized by partisan bickering, most lawmakers agree on one thing: American medicine needs to go digital.

But such bipartisan enthusiasm has obscured questions about the effectiveness of health information technology products, critics say.
Interviews with more than two dozen doctors, academics, patients and computer programmers suggest that computer systems can increase errors, add hours to doctors' workloads and compromise patient care.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102400967.html?wpisrc=newsletter

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Orange County, CA
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