title: New premises and new tools for medical care and education.
abstract: New information tools enable us to leave behind a world of medical practice in which providers of all sorts have been allowed to operate in the face of avoidable ignorance-ignorance of many relevant details from the medical literature as well as ignorance of details about a given patient. Furthermore, the new tools release providers and patients alike from the "predictable and undesirable internal constraints" of the unaided human mind as it tries to process vast amounts of information in the course of everyday medical care.
authors.affiliation: University of Vermont college of Medicine, Burlington 05401-1530, USA.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Weed
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations