The patient is a 35 year old right handed woman who lives with a partner who has been pregnant on two occasions and who has had two abortions and who did take birth control pills which she discontinued about 10 years ago because of profuse bleeding. These are the stock in trade of most dictating physicians. While artificial intelligence can ask the computer to question potential contradictions, the truth of the matter is that the computer is an extremely democratic device. Whether it runs an ATM machine or a digital dictation system, it does not care about how much money you make or what kind of car you drive. The computer does not care whether you are white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male, female or a one-eyed albino transsexual from Greenland.
Computers have absolutely no emotional attachment to the data they store and interpret.
Because the human factor is not part of voice recognition software, the computer doesn t have to care. It doesn t have to care about stroking a surgeon s ego to get a report done on time. It doesn t have to care about going the extra distance in order to hold onto its job. This means that a physician cannot bully the software. Nor can he try to impress or intimidate a computer with the fact that he is a doctor.