Posted by Mark H. on May 1, 2000, at 1:44:00
In reply to Re: Info Survey idea - Scott, posted by JohnB on May 1, 2000, at 0:01:24
John B wrote: t someone (or better, several people) who had the same illness as me, tried the same or nearly the same meds as me, got similar scores, and then went on to try med "D", which got a score of +++. Then that might give me some clue as to what might be the next med to mention to pdoc to try.
Mark here: That's sure why I keep posting -- both in case someone's case is close enough to mine that I could cut almost 4 years off of their agony -- and also in case someone else already knows where I'm headed and can help me and my doc.
We were pulling in every resource we knew right up until we found that mix that worked for me -- I was preparing for a rational, calm, long-planned death a year in advance, based on simply not being willing to live in that state forever. Our motto: "Don't give up." The right mix for someone might be one Psycho-Babble message away.
By the way, isn't there an AI group already experimenting with commercial applications to predict sales-suggestions based on large preference databases? Did you see that on TV awhile back? A huge mail-order house in England hired this American company to do the crunching, with results that people who order a toaster could predictably be interested in buying a lawnmower, despite no logical connection, just huge records of correlation. What a wonderful use that might be put to in psychiatric medicine!
Mark H.
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