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I really didn't mean to offend anybody with that computer interpretation remark; a similar remark was actually made by one of the attending radiologist's today when he was giving a talk about the study. He said that the amount of calcium in the coronary arteries would be quantified by computer, and that the ER resident running the project and other ER residents should not have any difficulty interpreting the degree of stenosis in the coronary arteries thanks to computer interpretation without a radiologist present. Someone will ultimately always need to make the diagnosis, and in my previous post, when I was posting about reading normal scans, I was only referring the high volume of films that would need to be interpreted if we did eventually scan everybody who stepped in the ER, I just think that it would make everybody's life easier (including radiologists) if computer technology got to the point where computers could at least highlight or flag pathology that they "interpret". I know that I don't like to see "healthy" patients (eg patients with the sniffles) when I am working in the hospital, I just assumed that radiologists didn't like to read normal scans all day, but I guess that I was mistaken. And computer interpretations are also very wide spread in medicine as well, we always get our ECG's with a preliminary computer interpretation (which is often wrong for some reason, but I think that the technology will eventually improve to the point that you won't need a cardiologist to read ECG's too as you program every possible algorithm in their computers). Computers are definitely the wave of the future, I look forward to the day when they do turn medicine into a series of protocols that anybody could follow. Doesn't mean that docs will be out of a job, it will probably just mean that clinical guidelines would be adhered to at a much higher rate then they currently are being adhered to. Anyways, I digress, my original intention in this thread was just to get a feel for where other programs were in completing this study because I understand that several major institutions are competing to be the first to publish. It's definitely very exciting stuff, since it will no doubt drastically change ER/medicine/cardiology management of the so many chest pain patients we admit every day.