Entrez PubMed: "The patient-computer interview: a neglected tool that can aid the clinician." Doctors are often too busy to talk to patients or take a proper medical history.Ironically, studies have shown that :
1. doctors interrupt patients with a few seconds of the start of the consultation; and
2. an accurate medical history is the most important diagnostic tool in medicine today.
If doctors can't be bothered to talk to their patients ( too busy ? too boring ?), then it makes a lot of sense to teach computers to do so !
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