Curing an Industry's Ills

摘要

The great info-tech revolution has bypassed most of the medical profession. In a world where a 13-year- old can trade Graffiti tips with her grandmother on a Palm, most doctors still write out prescriptions by hand. Which calls to mind the old joke about the doctor's hastily scrawled prescription. The patient used it for two years as a railroad pass. Twice it got him into Radio City Music Hall and once into Yankee Stadium.