Sunday, July 14, 2002
What your doctor doesn't know could kill you
Chris GaitherHumans, [Dr. Lawrence L.] Weed argues, cannot consistently process all of the information needed to diagnose and treat a complicated problem. The more information the physician gets about a patient, the more complex the task becomes. A doctor working without software to augment the mind, he argues, is like a scientist working without a microscope to augment the eye.
Fascinating article about Problem-Knowledge Couplers. Discussion at Slashdot.
