If you are fed up with having nothing to do in your doctor's waiting-room but read old copies of magazines, take heart. You may soon be talking to his comPuter instead. Computers are already transforming industry and commerce-what are they doing to medicine? Need we fear the approach of the electronic doctor?
PAUL VAUGHAN finds out from: DR. MICHAEL ABRAMS Guy's Hospital
ALEX D'AGAPEYEFF
Computer Analysts and Programmers Ltd.
PROFESSOR JOHN ANDERSON King's College Hospital
PROFESSOR WILFRID CARD Glasgow University Michael HEALY
Medical Research Council
PROFESSOR JIM PAYNE
Royal College of Surgeons DR. CLIVE SPICER
Medical Research Council Computing Centre
PROFESSOR IAN WOOTTON Hammersmith Hospital
Produced by Laurie John
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