Practitioner's Guide to Health Informatics
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Practitioner's Guide to Health Informatics
Practitioner’s Guide to Health Informatics
Mark L. Braunstein
Practitioner’s Guide to Health Informatics
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Mark L. Braunstein College of Computing Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-17661-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17662-8
ISBN 978-3-319-17662-8
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As a teacher I try to never forget the impact that we can have—sometimes in just a single conversation—on a young person’s life. Dr. David M. Kipnis died a few months before I began writing this book. He was chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Washington University. Toward the end of my incredibly demanding internship he unexpectedly summoned me to his office. To say the least, I was quite nervous. We had little interaction that busy, often hectic year during which I was subsumed by the care of very sick patients, often basically on my own and in a major hospital setting. He immediately asked something like: “Do you know why you were accepted to this program?” I had no answer (and feared I was about to hear something awful about my performance). He went on to explain that he, personally, had selected me because of my highly unusual combination of interests in medicine and computing, something he said would be very important over the coming years.
That comment particularly struck me because I never had an interest in medicine until, several years earlier, Dr. Leroy S. Lavine, a prominent physician and my cousin by marriage and whom I greatly respected, asked me what I planned to do after graduating from MIT. It was the sixties, a crazy time, and I told him I had no idea. He advised me that my strong interest in computi
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