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		Gatsky on Dec 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disrupting Medicine: Check Cowboy style? Do you actually believe this? On what basis are you suggesting that medical errors are related to the reckless behaviour of doctors? Do you have some secret research that goes against the current thinking on medical errors and how they are system problems, not related to a given individual? Do you have any evidence that subservience to mythical machines will improve health care? Do you work in healthcare? Do you deal with doctors and patients?

_juof on Dec 13, 2012 [–]

Atul gawande which is a surgeon coined the word cowboy in a new yorker article and in a lecture before new doctors.

There's some research that shows that decision support systems improve medicine. Too tired to look it up.

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