How far behind automated cars on the highway are automated docs in the clinic?
Below is a link to a post offering my evolving views on the future of artificial intelligence in medicine, particularly oncology. I'm increasingly impressed by the advances of machine learning and humbled by the reduced role of human higher thought in delivery of care.
https://jackwestmd.com/khosla-was-right/
I'll be adding thoughts on a brave new world of medical care, largely observations and speculation, so there is plenty of room for other opinions that I hope people will share.
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7 年Loved this, it points to a hopeful future: "Incorporating technology in our clinical work flow can provide both the backstop of essentially infinite knowledge base with the indefatigable ability to perform the rote tasks that represent a wasteful diversion of time better spent by humans on tasks that actually justify the talents that remain the province of human brains." Thank you for sharing your perspective.
Professor at University of Michigan Medical School
8 年I'll take a stab at this. Frankly, from a diagnostic, and therapeutic perspective, I think artificial intelligence will make us all better doctors, but it won't replace us. I think 25% of internal medicine, and all its subspecialties, is diagnostic and therapeutic skills, and 75% is teaching. Teaching our patients, largely how to manage their own chronic diseases, is why the best doctors, are also the best communicators. I am dubious that artificial intelligence will replace the human interaction behind effective teaching.