Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors And Patients For Better Care

"A very compassionate, patient-first physician pressing for bolder and more comprehensive computer uses in clinical medicine and in direct patient interaction." --from the foreword by Ralph Nader

"Cybermedicine is the most current and complete guide for the layman or professional." --Dean S. Edell, M.D., medical journalist

"For all computer-savvy health professionals-and of considerable interest to consumers involved in today's online health revolution." --Tom Ferguson, M.D., author, "Health Online"

"A superb, balanced overview of the remarkable contributions in medicine and health that computers have already made . . . and of the even more remarkable contributions we can look forward to from a pioneer in the field." --Howard H. Hiatt, M.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and former dean of the Harvard School of Public Health

"Who will end up in charge of medicine . . . ? Slack's answer is clear: the human physician. In the scenario Slack envisions for the future, man and machine are partners, not competitors." --"The Washington Post"

" Slack . . . brings a voice of reassurance, logic and humanity to the subject. Cybermedicine will satisfy your curiosity, challenge your perception, andperhaps-or better yet hopefully-make you more than a little angry." --"Mac Street Journal"

The Author Warner V. Slack, M.D., is professor of medicine and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and, with Howard L. Bleich, M.D., copresident of the Center for Clinical Computing and codirector of the Division of Clinical Computing, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

In this revised and updated edition of Cybermedicine, author Warner Slack presents a compelling argument for the use of computers for initial diagnosis and assessment, treatment decisions, self-care, research, prevention, and--above all--patient empowerment.