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Looks at medical judgment and how good it is. Can it be improved by the use of decision-making systems? Discussions and expositions are set in the context of a discourse between a judgment analyst and a...
Looks at F T de Dombal’s computer system for aiding in the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. It is shown in use in Sunderland District General Hospital and its inventor discusses its use and value. The...
Considers the implications for medical education of the issues raised in earlier programmes in the course. Donald Schon explains his idea of the ‘reflective practitioner’. Paul Atkinson discusses the...
Looks at a policy-capturing study conducted within the medical profession, its intentions, results and reactions to it. In the study judgments made by consultants in assessing the severity of arthritis were...
Looks at ways of determining people’s utilities for various health states. There is actuality and reconstruction of various methods currently employed at the New England Medical Center and in genetic...
Introduces decision analysis and shows it in use in the USA at the New England Medical Center and in genetic counselling. Concentrates on the way decision trees are used to structure complex decisions. The...
Continues the presentation of decision analysis by looking at biases commonly exhibited by people when they assess chances. A group of hospital staff respond to light-hearted questions and their answers are...
A discussion on medicine and the law led by Diana Brahams who is a barrister-at-law, editor of the ‘Medico-Legal Journal’ and legal correspondent to ‘The Lancet’. The participants are Raanan Gillon,...
Knowledge-based aids are briefly presented and discussed: the GLADYS system for diagnosing dyspepsia; algorithms used in training workers in Third World countries; a rule-based expert system currently being...
The 1990 film, directed by Jennie Livingston, catalogues the world of "balls", the huge events that see scores of New York drag queens parading up and down runways in lavish and flamboyant (and more often...
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