007: A Patient Is Not a Jeopardy Question

This week, Josh and Jason respond to criticisms that doctors should not learn how to code and discuss IBM's Watson and it's potential impact on medicine.

Links for this episode:

• Code.org
• Code.org | What most schools don't teach [video]
• Scratch
• Code School
• Treehouse
• TheraDoc
• YouTube | IBM Watson Demo - Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment (2 min)
• CBS News | IBM supercomputer Watson now being offered to doctors to diagnose patients
• The Economist | Doctor Watson
• Forbes | IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
• The Verge | IBM's Watson joins doctors in fighting lung cancer with cloud-based medical app
• The Atlantic | The Robot Will See You Now
• The New Yorker | The Truth Wears Off
• Wikipedia | Anchoring
• Infectious Diseases Society of America | Clinical Practice Guideline for the Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Neutropenic Patients with Cancer
• PBS | Smartest Machine on Earth
• Framingham Heart Study
• TED | Abraham Verghese - A doctor's touch
• Skyfall
• Luck Laboratories | The Business of Bond

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