My impression of what doctors do is that they find out the symptoms displayed by the patient and they judge which condition best fits the combination.
If this is really what it is, then you can just have a computer system containing all the diseases linked to their symptoms together with the relevant probabilities, like how common they are and which symptoms are more common with which disease.
In addition, they can also display the drugs that are routinely prescribed for the illnesses plus the relevant allergies and conditions that forbid the drugs. Non-routine stuff would be sent to a central HQ sort of place where the real doctors are.
Medical assistants will then find out what symptoms there are and input them as using keywords like "rashes" and whatever names they have for whichever body parts, and the computer would display the possible illnesses together with their probabilities.
Of course things like surgeries are still going to need human hands as long as robotic arms currently available are not able to replace surgeons completely.
But diagnosing might get simpler if there is a nationwide system that not only does what I described but also contains the medical records of everyone in the country. This would allow the system to adjust appropriately for whatever bias the genes in the country has for whatever conditions.
This would remove a huge chunk of stuff from the medical schools' curriculum which, for the most part, seems redundant for general practitioners. I mean, they appear to be only good for minor stuff like flu and coughs. Anything more and they refer you to the specialists.
The system and the assistant, who is pretty much a GP without the medical encyclopedia in his head, or who can be seen as a person with only the empirical knowledge for diagnosing illnesses, can theoretically replace the GP.
That would free up a lot of talents in the medical field.
I mean, all those people who qualified for a place in any medical school are pretty smart people. It just feels like a waste if their jobs are as simple as such routine things as prescribing cough medicine day in and day out.
So coffee makes people lazy and yet boosts brain power (at least temporarily).
The good news is:
“Workers” began to slack off after consuming caffeine. “Slackers” remained slackers regardless of caffeine ingestion.Phew. For a while I thought it could make us slackers slack even harder.
Only today did I learn that Yu Pin King is under Shop N Save. No wonder I keep seeing promotions for this brand all the time.
Speaking of Shop N Save, I just bought 6 litres of Knife brand cooking oil since it was having a promotion. It was a 5-litre bottle with an extra 1-litre bottle of the same oil. I have to say the timing is perfect. I have almost used up my 2-litre bottle and felt that it was empty too soon. Moreover, I recall my mum used to buy the larger 5-litre bottle in the past which implies that it shouldn't go rancid before I finish it.
Now I have more oil for deep frying stuff.
My NS unit is allowing everyone who cleared his IPPT one night off during the coming reservist training. I've completed mine through IPT for this window! Woohoo!
The remake of Baldur's Gate 2 is going to have DLCs.
What we can be sure they're going to be is that they will be inconsequential events that have little to do with the main story or anyone else in the original game.
Otherwise, they will ruin the game.
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