tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post4764276426312511211..comments2024-03-27T10:50:53.692-05:00Comments on Real Psychiatry: Watson Replacing Radiologists?George Dawson, MD, DFAPAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474899831557543486noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-28273298768643481132015-10-14T12:51:15.493-05:002015-10-14T12:51:15.493-05:00I don't think you need a computer to interpret...I don't think you need a computer to interpret a PHQ-9 score.<br /><br />Managed care is doing their best to make psychiatry and psychiatrists obsolete by dumbing down the entire field to a checklist and a prescription that just about anybody can do.<br /><br />I think they have succeeded - at least the APA seems to think so.George Dawson, MD, DFAPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474899831557543486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-90070774862397081452015-10-14T12:30:04.220-05:002015-10-14T12:30:04.220-05:00And yet institutional psychiatry refuses to embrac...And yet institutional psychiatry refuses to embrace it's low-tech advantage. While promoting business models that will lead to its obsolescence since Watson can easily be programmed with a treatment algorithm. James O'Brien, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14994350319492582321noreply@blogger.com