Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care
Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care Books
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Written by the man Newsweek dubbed ‘Cyberdoc’, Cybermedicine is a passionate plea for the expanded use of computers among both doctors and patients. The book presents a compelling argument for the use of computers in the initial diagnosis and assessment of patients, for crucial decisions in the course of treatment, and for use in self-care, research, prevention of illness, and – above all – patient empowerment. Cybermedicine is filled with real-life examples from patients, practitioners, and health care institutions. Slack offers convincing evidence that computers can provide doctors with an invaluable extension of their clinical resources as well as the means for transferring more control to the patient. Slack shows that ultimately the computer has been a humanizing influence in the do of medicine.Amazon.com Review
Dr. Warner Slack has reasonable opinions on the do of medicine–whatever helps patients live more pleased, healthier lives is excellent medicine; whatever interferes with patients’ health is terrible; and the more knowledge and control place into patients’ hands, the better. Slack also enthusiastically believes that computers are powerful tools for excellent medicine. Observably, computer technology is at the root of a wide area of diagnostic and surgical tools, from CAT scans to surgical monitors, but that’s not what Slack discusses. He looks at computers as communication tools for storing and retrieving in rank–tools that empower patients to take a greater role in their own health care and provide physicians with a wider range of knowledge and capabilities.
Slack first examines how computers in medicine have affected patients, showing how, contrary to all fears of the ’50s and ’60s, the computer has been a tool for humanizing medicine. The Internet has brought patients together into online help groups. In rank about medical matters, once handed down to patients from on high (if at all), is now available to anyone who learns the fundamentals of a search engine. And even in treatment itself, preliminary interviews through computer forms have made patients feel more at ease, led to greater insights, and evoked feelings of being more in control. Slack clarifies how computers have allowed doctors to network, gain quick and simple access to all the latest technical in rank, and review medical in rank.
Slack’s conclusion is that the medical world needs more computers, but he tempers his enthusiasm with caution regarding the challenges of maintaining confidentiality. Slack writes without a trace of ponderousness and with refreshing common sense. His emphasis on the patient as an intelligent human being rather than as an object to be treated is uplifting. Not only should all doctors, patients, and health care administrators read this book, they should discuss it with each other.
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