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From anecdotes to AI tools, how doctors make medical decisions is evolving with technology

  • Written by Aaron J. Masino, Associate Professor of Computing, Clemson University
imageAI tools can help doctors synthesize all the information that goes into a clinical decision.Khanchit Khirisutchalual/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal...

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