Medicine: Instant Checkup

Hello there. First, we need to ask some questions about you and your medical history. How old are you? Has your mother or any sister ever had breast cancer? Do you exercise continuously so that you have to breathe very fast for more than 20 minutes at least once a week? Have you felt unusually tired, even though you are getting enough sleep?

These are questions that might have been asked by a doctor during a routine physical checkup. But they were not; they came from a computer. In the past few months, some 500...

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