[AISWorld] AISWorld Digest, Vol 1485, Issue 1

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Which Steve Sawyer noted in his contribution.
Frank

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From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Michael Myers
Sent: 18 July 2016 16:26
To: Kevin G Crowston
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Subject: Re: [AISWorld] AISWorld Digest, Vol 1485, Issue 1

Yes I agree. What I should have said is that doctors are able to understand the latest research, which suggests the problem is with our lack of research training of IS practitioners

Michael

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> On 18/07/2016, at 7:56 PM, Kevin G Crowston <crowston at syr.edu> wrote:
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> Michael Myers wrote:
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> 2. Most patients do not understand the language of medical research. Does that mean that medical research has no value ? Of course not! I don't think we should expect practitioners and the general public - most of whom have not had any research training - to understand the language of research.
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> I'm not sure if patients is the right analogy. Doctors are the practitioners who use medical research, not the patients directly. And many doctors do consider themselves scientists (they do get a fair amount of training in science) and follow medical research. I was surprised when I asked my doctor about a recent set of findings and he said was still making up his mind (i.e., he wanted to evaluate the studies himself). There does seem to be a different relationship between research and practice in that domain.
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