Too Little Some doctors balk at endorsing electronic diagnosis and treatment they fear that humanity and art will be bled out of medicine.
Doctors often end up playing Russian roulette with our lives.
This doesn't happen because they're deliberately trying to put us in harm's way. But the underlying cause of this information-overload crisis is the entrenched, almost defiant belief, honed by stalwart tradition, that the doctor's brain is capable of processing an endless stream of new facts. Moreover, doctors are assumed to be able to record all this data in a highly organized fashion, retrieve it on demand and apply it with minimal error and sound clinical judgement to each and every patient. If you believe that, then you probably also believe in the Tooth Fairy. Formerly at the University of Vermont, he now runs a computer company in Burlington, dedicated to providing doctors with electronic diagnosis and treatment tools.