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To the Editor: You suggest (Jan. 5 issue)¹ a larger role for the computer in the future of medicine. If we observe the uses of computers in other areas of our society, we must wonder this: Are you a prophetic herald telling of the end of medicine as we have known it? And are we on the threshold of a convergence of revolutions — that of managed care and that of cybermedicine? Let us make two assumptions: first, that medicine is becoming a commodity, and second, that algorithms are an empirically valid method for arriving at reasonable diagnoses and treatments.

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