A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019
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.