The problem with doctors having a monopoly on medical knowledge

The problem with doctors having a monopoly on medical knowledge : "'We're moving knowledge from its source. We've got all this knowledge from the medical literature and from the patients themselves. We're trying to move that to our everyday actions in medical care. And we said the way to do that is to put it in human heads and the human heads will take the actions,' Weed said, to hearty laughter. Comparing the chain of knowledge to an electric utility, Weed said, 'The voltage drop across that line is pathetic.'

The solution, according to Weed, is to let computers do the thinking, coupling knowledge to specific problems. (Problem-knowledge couplers just happen to be the thrust of PKC Corp., the software Weed founded in 1982 to develop clinical decision-support software.) 'New tools are everything,' Weed says. 'It's the tools we use that advance our civilization.'"

Give patients these tools, and they will do a better job than their doctors !