Dehumanization of patient care - are computers the problem or the solution?

ed from a paper presented at the Autumn General Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, November 12, 1992.1 Supported by National Library of Medicine grant LM05305. Correspondence and reprints: Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5479. Received for publication: 6/08/93; revision accepted for publication: 6/09/93. J Am Med Informatics Assoc. 1994;1:76-78.