Med Exp Sys Dx

Med Exp Sys Dx

Back in 1988 I had found this shareware expert system called esie and it
had a pediatric diagnostic sample program. I would have expected to find a
much more advanced version by now. I mean, the WalMart clinics and the
self-medicating drug stores would love to have them. And by and large I find
that a lot of young (overspecialised) docs don't have the patience to ask
enough questions to make an accurate Dx, so it would me much more
comprehensive to put the patient in front of a computer (except my experience
is the patient probably knows more about computers than the doctor).
Certainly it would in the long run cut medical costs because patients would
solve their problems earlier and less expensively. Except, looking at today's
socialist "insured" medical rationing, you'ld think it's set up to delay the
patient's Rx/Dx until it's the most expensive possible. I mean, we can have
xray machines checking our briefcases at the office building, but heck, a
medical xray has to be more expensive. I know someone who thought he broke
his foot and stuck it in his doorman's xray machine. Then every chemotherapy
clinic has a hundred thousand dollar blood test machine, but why not every
ten-doctor office, who instead sends you to overpriced labs? I mean, we need
these machines to be produced at greater scale so as to make them cheaper,
not ration the few of them to keep prices up.

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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
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