Health

A small minority feel that they are being shunted to second-rate care

A.I. may let specialists hand over patients to generalists

The goal is to expedite care for those with more worrisome symptoms

GERDBot triages patients steering those who don’t really need to see him to other providers

Patients with serious diseases need a human connection

A patient might feel a pin if Dr Schwamm pricks their arm

A.I. can outperform doctors in some situations like reading an electrocardiogram

Detecting patterns cardiologists can’t see would ordinarily require an expensive echocardiogram

Most patients who were worried about GERD symptoms had to wait weeks to get an appointment with Dr Pandolfino

Chatbots are just really good at matching patterns and making predictions

Chatbots are good at answering patient questions in portals writing appeals to insurance companies when a medication or procedure is denied

Dr Jonathan Chen practices with a chatbot when it is time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about inserting a feeding tube

A dead arm might be numb rather than weak

Patient says yesterday I woke up dizzy my arm was dead and I had trouble speaking

A.I. is taking over some of the scutwork that doctors have to do now like making notes about patient visits

A.I. programs are becoming existentially threatening for doctors

Other organs turn acetate into water and carbon dioxide to be expelled from the body

If inflammation goes on too long damaged cells start to turn into scar tissue called fibrosis which can result in liver cirrhosis and potentially liver failure

In response to the damage caused by acetaldehyde fat deposits start to build up in the liver resulting in fatty liver disease or steatosis

The liver may be the organ most vulnerable to damage from drinking and alcohol-related liver disease is the leading cause of death from excessive drinking