Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, associate professor of health-care policy and medicine, Harvard Medical School, and hospitalist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both in Boston. He was lead investigator of “Comparison of Physician and Computer Diagnostic Accuracy,” a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Computers are amazing. They can beat world-class chess champions. But they can’t yet replace your doctor. Case in point—online symptom…