One of America's top doctors reveals how artificial intelligence (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 his latest book, Deep Medicine, Topol reveals how AI can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from note-taking 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.
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Bill Grant
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Topol photo by John Arispizabal
Eric Topol, M.D.
Cardiologist; Executive Vice President, Scripps Research; Author, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, The Patient Will See You Now and Deep Medicine (Forthcoming)
Mark Zitter
Chair, The Zetema Project; Chairman, Zitter Health Insights—Moderator