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In the E.R., interactions between patient and doctor rarely unfold neatly and logically. A patient starts with a description of chest pain, circles back to a fever, remembers a medication he stopped taking, mentions a family history of heart disease only after his wife prompts him, then adds one more symptom as the encounter is wrapping up. But the A.I. scribe converts that wandering, stuttering exchange into a tidy clinical synthesis — a miracle, it seems! The messy human sprawl of the visit returned to me clean and perfectly punctuated in less than a minute.
~ Helen Ouyang via The New York Times Magazine

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General Lyman Lemnitzer was born
on this day in 1899

Lyman Lemnitzer – the American four-star general who served as the 4th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO – was born on this day – August 29, 1899 – in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College.

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