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    Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
    Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
    Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
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    Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

    Written by Eric Topol

    Narrated by Graham Winton

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    About this audiobook

    One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment, greatly cutting down the cost of medicine and reducing human mortality. By freeing physicians from the tasks that interfere with human connection, AI will create space for the real healing that takes place between a doctor who can listen and a patient who needs to be heard. Innovative, provocative, and hopeful, Deep Medicine shows us how the awesome power of AI can make medicine better, for all the humans involved.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 12, 2019
    ISBN9781501989667
    Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

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    • 4/5
      A clever listing of the potentials , but poor representation of today’s medicine career. The author neglects Medical education trailing behind technology and skimmed over the laws curtailing technological advances
    • 4/5
      Eric Topol surveys the landscape of AI in medicine and healthcare. He also discusses future developments, pitfalls and eventually touches on how AI and doctors can complement each other rendering treatment more humane. Great book
    • 5/5
      The author is a cardiologist, who has conducted significant research outside of his specialty. I am impressed with his knowledge of the progress of artificial intelligence in the spectrum of medical fields. He concludes with a discussion of how human interaction is key and that machines may help free up time for more meaningful patient encounters. I like the author’s intelligence and his attitude. I strongly recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      Dr Topol has done a review for NHS England on the future of AI and knowledge management etc which is of interest to me professionally so I wanted to read his book on the topic. Mostly very interesting although as he says himself things are changing so fast it's hard to identify what will change the world and what will just fizzle out. He sees it as a way to free health professionals from the "grunt" work and have more personal connection to patients. Not convinced that will happen myself but we can only hope.
    • 5/5
      The author, an innovative medical school president in California, is one of my favorites on the topic of computing in medicine. He sees the medical landscape wider than most scholars, and he is a true humanist at heart. He surveys the field of artificial intelligence and sees how it could apply to modern medicine.

      Most of the described projects are pipe dreams now, but Topol sees potential in them. Of course, they need rigorous clinical trials to demonstrate their efficacy. I would love for my personal doctor to prescribe a mobile app for me to track this or that.

      I’ve been on the bandwagon of medical mobile apps for a while now. They adopt the power of computing to the ever-changing landscape of life. Artificial intelligence can only add to this power as it will help us solve many problems. In the clinic, virtual assistants, equipped with the power of Natural Language Processing, can even help MDs spend more “human time” with their patients.

      Of course, not all will be ideal. Topol tackles the dysutopian themes of artificial intelligence, too. We must be sure that ethics continue to be maintained and that humans remain the driver in the doctor-patient relationship. But in truth, are humans really the driver in the relationship now? Money is a much stronger driver than humanism now. Let’s hope that artificial intelligence adds to the humanism before the money can take over even more.

      This book is a great read for those in the field of medical technology, healthcare, or technology. It’s written in an accessible manner while still be thoroughly researched. I love all of Topol’s work.