Diagnostician customized medical diagnostic apparatus using a digital library

A physician operated medical data analysis system for assisting a physician in identifying ailments and conditions which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient, comprising:

• a Digital Library for providing access to a plurality of published literature which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with patient medical data;
• a control database which contains a plurality of sets of medical data indicative of measurements indicative of characteristics of control subjects;
• a data characterization module for calculating control variations of a set of patient medical data, collected from and about an identified patient, from at least one of said plurality of sets of medical data in said control database to identify anomalies in said set of patient medical data;
• a characterization module relating to said set of patient medical data for searching the Digital Library for published literature relating to at least one of the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies calculated by said data characterization module;
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• an information access module for providing an authorized physician with access to physician selected published literature identified by the characterization module.