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Ultimately, this is an optimistic book. "The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust—the human touch—between patients and doctors."
There's detail on what machine learning can do right now. That includes diagnosis from radiography, virutal medicine (telemedicine and chatbots), personalisation of healthcare, diet, mental health, and AI as a tool for use by the clinician.
I found it astonishing how much progress has been made. Yet: "We're still in the earliest days of AI in medicine. The field is long on computer algorithmic validation and promises but very short on real-world, clinical proof of effectiveness." Nevertheless, "it is inevitable that narrow AI [specific, targetting algorithms] will take hold".
My takeaway from the book was the hope for "deep empathy": knowing about the patient, their history, and having the time to use that knowledge. "It's our chance, perhaps the ultimate one, to bring back real medicine: Presence. Empathy. Trust. Caring. Being Human."
There's detail on what machine learning can do right now. That includes diagnosis from radiography, virutal medicine (telemedicine and chatbots), personalisation of healthcare, diet, mental health, and AI as a tool for use by the clinician.
I found it astonishing how much progress has been made. Yet: "We're still in the earliest days of AI in medicine. The field is long on computer algorithmic validation and promises but very short on real-world, clinical proof of effectiveness." Nevertheless, "it is inevitable that narrow AI [specific, targetting algorithms] will take hold".
My takeaway from the book was the hope for "deep empathy": knowing about the patient, their history, and having the time to use that knowledge. "It's our chance, perhaps the ultimate one, to bring back real medicine: Presence. Empathy. Trust. Caring. Being Human."