From Gut Feelings to Data-Driven Decisions: The Role of Intuition and Algorithms in Medicine

And what does Rodney Dangerfield have to do with it?

In medical school, during the seemingly most complicated lectures, I would sometimes chuckle and mutter out loud to my classmates sitting nearby, it’s just intuition! Eyes would roll and then look at me like this old-guy Martinelli character is on some other planet!

Keep in mind, I was a 47-year-old first year medical student with 22 years of practice ex…