Andrew S Lea, David S Jones
N Engl J Med . 2024 Jan 25;390(4):293-295. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2311015. Epub 2024 Jan 20.
Patients who came to the Leeds General Infirmary in the 1960s and 1970s could expect to see the familiar personnel of a British academic medical center — from house officers to registrars and consultants. But people who presented with acute abdominal pain in 1971 were evaluated by a curious entity: AAPHelp, a computerized diagnostic system.