- Trouble with The Long Tail concept (2008 article)
- Computer-assisted diagnosis is better than ordinary diagnosis but doctors don’t want to use it. “Most of us don’t think we need help at diagnosis, especially with routine cases, which account for the majority of our work,” says a doctor. The first malpractice suit (failure to use computer diagnosis) cannot come soon enough.
- Human stool transplants reverse antibiotic damage.
Thanks to Charles Platt and Adam Clemens.
Anderson’s response to Page’s Long Tail study should be found at the top of a Google search for its title:
“More Long Tail debate: mobile music no, search yes”
But maybe that title is enough.
Antibiotics wreak such havoc with the body’s microbiome, it would be good to see stool transplants become a standard treatment/follow-up after a course of antibiotics, even if clostridium difficile is not causing problems. Obviously it would be preferable to use the patients own stool, as mentioned in the closing paragraphs of the article.
The big question though – will people be able to get over the yuck factor? I suspect a majority will not….