Misdiagnoes Are More Important Than Doctors

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Nowadays artificial intelligence has become not only a significant connection between doctors and patients but also a tremendous help with disease prediction. In daily life, each doctor has to face more than 100 patients every single day, including by appointments and emergencies. It has become difficult for doctors to remember every detailed situation for each patient. From patients’ perspective, unfortunately, there is no way to predict illness before the illness really happened to them. Because of these two reasons provided above, misdiagnosis will have a great chance to happen. According to Johns Hopkins research in 2012, 45,500 patients die from misdiagnosis in United State every year (Parkin, 2016). British company Babylon launched

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