a system which would allow doctors to give a list of symptoms and have the most likely diagnostics listed by probability
Oh, good. Seems every episode of House I watched would contain a scene that began with, "Differential diagnosis for shoulder pain, go!" And then they'd spend ten minutes listing off all the diseases that could cause it. And I'd spend ten minutes thinking "You people really need a database."
I'm not sure that House is an entirely accurate depiction of how diagnostic medicine works. For instance, I'm pretty sure real diagnosticians have to look something up in a book every now and then.
Indeed. I hoped that something like what I imagined either existed or was actively being built. Until this comment, though, my faith in the medical industry was insufficient to justify the belief.
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a system which would allow doctors to give a list of symptoms and have the most likely diagnostics listed by probability
Oh, good. Seems every episode of House I watched would contain a scene that began with, "Differential diagnosis for shoulder pain, go!" And then they'd spend ten minutes listing off all the diseases that could cause it. And I'd spend ten minutes thinking "You people really need a database."
I'm not sure that House is an entirely accurate depiction of how diagnostic medicine works. For instance, I'm pretty sure real diagnosticians have to look something up in a book every now and then.
Indeed. I hoped that something like what I imagined either existed or was actively being built. Until this comment, though, my faith in the medical industry was insufficient to justify the belief.