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39 reviews for:
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
3.72 AVERAGE
39 reviews for:
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
3.72 AVERAGE
A bit dense at times, but an enjoyable and still relevant read.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
This book was a bit of a firehose of AI information and speculation. I appreciated all the examples of how AI is being used to further medical diagnostics and drug development, but I found the arguments towards AI-driven administrative efficiency being an opportunity for increasing human contact (with the caveat that doctors will have to advocate for such changes...you know, in all their spare time with all their spare energy?), to be a bit thin. Even though the book is only from 2019, it feels a little quaint and outdated already.
Part of my mega-push for self-education in this field in 2025 and part of my resolution to consume nonfiction in audio format so that I can appreciate it better.
Part of my mega-push for self-education in this field in 2025 and part of my resolution to consume nonfiction in audio format so that I can appreciate it better.
funny
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
This is a curious book. I think I agree with all the examples and disagree with the conclusion.
AI can transform medicine. Agree. Most of the non-medical examples given are a little well worn, ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/book-review-deep-medicine-eric-topol/
AI can transform medicine. Agree. Most of the non-medical examples given are a little well worn, ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/book-review-deep-medicine-eric-topol/
So - "really liked" is maybe an over statement but I found a lot of this book fascinating and I appreciated that the topic isn't one I'm much informed on at all so I was learning the whole time. It's definitely a long book & I'm glad I had the audio version because I doubt I would have finished it in hard copy.
This book was selected for the following 2023 BYL reading challenge prompt:
That teaches you something new
This book was selected for the following 2023 BYL reading challenge prompt:
That teaches you something new
This was enlightening on the true state of AI in medicine (at least as of 2019, though I wonder if it's changed considerably since then), and as a naturopathic physician, it also made me breathe a sigh of relief. At least according to the author, there is a place for AI to assist in improving medical care, in the sense that it will enable doctors to cope with the massive amount of data now available in EHR and from smart apps and what-not, as well as helping them to comb through the myriad of studies they can't possibly have time to read, distilling information down to what's actionable for the patient in front of them. It will help with pattern recognition particularly in radiology and dermatology, making diagnoses more accurate... but Artificial General Intelligence is nowhere near (or again, at least it wasn't as of 2019). So it's not as if AI is likely to replace doctors altogether anytime soon. Humans will still be necessary to synthesize the information distilled by the machines, and to have an empathic connection to patients (which AI will, in an ideal world, make possible again by giving doctors their time back). I felt fairly sure, after listening to this, that Artificial General Intelligence wasn't truly likely to ever become possible.
A good summary of the opportunities, risks and considerations of AI and data digitisation in healthcare. Cautiously optimistic about the future, Topol is clearly biased towards the value of the doctor-patient human connection. This hopeful view is exciting, although only time will tell if the technological shift facilitates the growth of empathy that Topol dreams up.
Di Eric Topol avevo letto non molto tempo fa (e apprezzato assai) [b:The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands|22825546|The Patient Will See You Now The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands|Eric J. Topol|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1411605133l/22825546._SY75_.jpg|42379973]: un libro del 2015 che illustrava alcuni motivi per cui il ruolo del medico avrebbe dovuto cambiare come conseguenza di una serie di evoluzioni in corso attorno a professionisti e pazienti (la mia recensione). Deep Medicine è stato invece pubblicato nel 2019 e si concentra quasi esclusivamente sul ruolo che ha e avrà l’intelligenza artificiale nella sanità. Si tratta quindi di un tema estremamente attuale, sicuramente affrontato con una prospettiva americanocentrica, ma con numerosi spunti di riflessione su come ripensare le modalità di funzionamento delle organizzazioni sanitarie. La tesi di fondo è anche piuttosto convincente: dobbiamo pensare alle innovazioni, come l’IA, come strumenti in grado di rimettere al centro la relazione tra paziente e medico basata su quello che distingue l’essere umano dalle macchine (ad esempio, l’empatia), liberando i professionisti sanitari dallo svolgimento di attività a basso valore aggiunto. Perché quindi “solo” tre stelline? Perché in alcune parti il saggio diventa abbastanza tecnico e quindi non semplicissimo e non necessariamente accessibile a tuttə.
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Excellent and timely insight which, unfortunately, continues to be ignored by our society.