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 Read more…
*The picture is from YG2D.COM ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end’ is a new book by the best-selling US surgeon and author Atul Gwande. Death, dying or being mortal is not a favourite topic of doctors. Although this book will not change your whole life, it could very well Read more…
Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.[1][2][3] There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art,[4][5][6] and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture.[7] Theatre, dance, Read more…
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) came back into the limelight in 2018 when the Royal College of Physicians, London invited Babylon’s Team (Babylon a healthcare chatbot) to make a presentation at its 2018 conference. The NHS-UK decided to use Babylon to triage patients, hopefully shortening the waiting time for patients to Read more…