TY  - JOUR
T1  - INterpretation of symptoms with a data-processing machine
AU  - BRODMAN K, van WOERKOM AJ, ERDMANN AJ, Jr., GOLDSTEIN LS
Y1  - 1959/05/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270050098015
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 776
EP  - 782
VL  - 103
IS  - 5
N2  - Recognizing that machines in the practice of medicine are here to stay, physicians have the obligation to learn as much of their advantages and limitations as they can comprehend. The machine described here merely correlates symptoms set down by the patient and draws conclusions on the basis of what it has "learned" from physicians. Hence it makes the same errors as the human brain which "taught" it plus others that arc inherent in its inability to initiate the thinking process. One reviewer of the paper presented below asked this important question, "What is the character of the error when a diagnosis is made which is not correct? If a patient with flat feet is simply not so diagnosed, this is one type of error, but if the machine reads, 'respiratory tuberculosis inactive,' it's another." This and many other questions properly may arise.At the same time, the device is an
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270050098015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270050098015
ER  -