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Excerpt from the book Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sander:
“Laboratory cultures of blood and stool could probably provide an accurate identification, but this would take days. And this patient was too sick to wait. <…> Dr. Bia turned to his computer and consulted his own expert – GIDEON. <…> Within ten minutes he had a plan. “I used GIDEON to be certain I didn’t miss anything,” he told me later. “It confirmed my hunch about the best way to proceed.”