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# 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...

