Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umn-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP (Richard Smith) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Diagnosing strategies for humans? Message-ID: <569@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 21:00:47 EDT Article-I.D.: umn-cs.569 Posted: Fri Oct 19 21:00:47 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 16:24:28 EDT Sender: notes@umn-cs.UUCP Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:pucc-h:-133900:umn-cs:16400002:000:651 Nf-From: umn-cs!smith Oct 19 12:55:00 1984 In response to robison and the fine art of diagnosis: My secondhand impression of medical diagnosis matches yours. My wife is a family physician and from what I've seen it's obvious that physical examination is an arcane art. My wife seems to derive lots of data simply from poking, prodding, and listening with a stethoscope. The larger part of one's medical education is in a sort of hospital 'apprenticeship' learning these things firsthand (i.e. med school clinical rotations, then internship and residency). Naturally you're most familiar with things that your teachers know and with the typical ailments at the hospitals you work at. Rick.