mab@bnl.UUCP (Michael A. Bloom) (12/17/83)
"The suggestion for AI machines in medicine seems to point opposite to improving that profession. Medicine today has too many machines and machine-oriented workers, too few healers. The whole field is distorted by the excessive rewards..." Then let us work out a means by which machines are made to 'care' about their patients. Can we determine what is needed to do this? Perhaps an offshoot of ai is called for: "artificial empathy" (complete with "spiritual systems") o :-) "The average MD has become a dispenser of technology, prescribing machine treatments and chemical doses. ... There are already too many Artificial Inteligences with Medicinae Doctor initials-- we need more Humans. --Genji" True. This has given me an idea for a *good* use of this media. It is VERY hard to find a good doctor. ( And people often don't look very hard until they dont have the time to look). What do people think of proposing net.med.good-doc (maybe not the best of names). Here people can relate experiences they have had with what they consider to be good doctors, naming the doctors, of course. A problem would be that you couldn't refer to a poor doctor as such (at least not without risking a libel suit). -- Michael A. Bloom ..!bnl!mab or mcb@mit-mc.arpa or mab@bnl