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Read about WATSON, IBM's computer system that assimilates research on medical conditions, such as cancer, and helps doctors diagnose and treat patients.
https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43444.wss
A. Do you believe an intelligent computer system will replace human doctors and nurse practitioners in diagnosing and treating disease?
B. Why or why not?
C. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a system like WATSON?
I don't think that a computer can replace the doctor or nurse and diagnose the conditions more safely and fastly. Although technologies have developed slot and computers are using in every field of patient care, human effort is the major which cannot replaced by anything. A computer could do diagnosis, but it won't find out the primary and secondary causes of that. Also, in case of any emergency , the spontaneous action of a nurse can safeguard the life of a patient which is not possible in computers as it is not having the capacity to self think.
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