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Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine

Posted on August 25, 2019 6:45 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

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While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of the time. We are all different. More importantly, the reduction of medical decision-making to a set of research-based findings destroys the real value of medicine, the story space between…

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Neural Networks and the Black Box

Posted on July 1, 2017 10:36 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The excitement over deep learning and neural networks is well deserved, but the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of “deep learning” will replace the need for physician expertise is, I would suggest, a bit premature. Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., in “A.I. Versus M.D.” does an excellent job of illustrating the differences between man…

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Between Authors and Editors

Posted on June 19, 2017 11:09 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I have always been interested in the interaction between writers and editors, probably because I have sat in each of these two chairs. As an editor in a department producing technical articles for the satellite communications industry, I often worked with engineers who found it difficult to put their ideas into words, especially if English…

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