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Screen Time

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I have been working in cancer screening for seven months now, and I have had the opportunity to reflect on what that means for me, as a cancer patient myself. For a start, my cancer is colorectal not cervical, and besides it is unrelated to screening as I was diagnosed at an age that is outside of the screening parameters.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. Bob: Yeah.

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