Which of the following is true regarding the clinical use of computers?
a. It can be a useful substitute for critical thinking.
b. It can remind us about unrecognized pos-sibilities in diagnosis.
c. It helps protect against breached confi-dentiality.
d. It allows for the detection of human sub-tleties.
B
Computers can alert us to alarming values in laboratory results or provide us with interpretative guidelines so that unrecognized possibilities in diagnosing become evident. However, computers cannot substitute for critical thinking, nor can they sense human subtleties, and their use in clini-cal settings threatens confidentiality.
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