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When Doctors Play This Game, You Get Better Medical Care (npr.org)
8 points by RougeFemme on May 21, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Very nice - modest gains, but almost no cost. As an experiment, this quiz-with-funny-pictures is great. "Games" offer a new medium of expression, and are probably the "right tool for the job" for some problems. As this article shows, games might be particularly useful in education, if we can figure out creative ways to use them.

If you're interested in the idea of games-in-education, ExtraCredits has been running a very interesting (and fun) overview/exploration of this idea over the last few weeks:

    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BIUqSDPmfBuKjTN2QBv9wI


What's scary is that in the age of worldwide information databases and machine learning, we rely on a Doctor's 20-year old intuition for choosing therapies. Patients should insist "Citation needed" for their doctor's advice, and doctor should gladly give it.




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