# Next-generation Physicians ## From Bayes to Controls Physicians, like engineers, are goal-driven. Scientific understanding can help achieve a goal more effectively and more efficiently, but it is not required. Physicians, unlike scientists, do not rely on pristine experiments to collect data and perform reductionist inferences. The emergence of *evidence based medicine* marks an important milestone for medicine, moving away from subjective experience to objective evidence. However, it relies heavily on the reductionist statistical frameworks of the late 1900s - much of its foundation was set by the time high-dimensional inference tools, namely machine learning, became tractable. ## Bayesian Physicians The idea that a physician is Bayesian has long been proposed \cite{}. ## From Bayes to Controls A core algorithm in Control Theory is the *Kalman Filter*. This algorithm...