72 - Problems

What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023, but we've been discussing this for over 50 years. In this ep ...  Show more

What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research base in Antarctica in the middle of the winter – develops a surgical abdomen? This dilemma was the impetus to build the first truly effective clinical dec ...  Show more

In this episode, a medical educator goes on the record with widespread but rarely publicly voiced concerns about the slippery slope from “wellness days” to inadequate medical training.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400 ...

Electronic health records aren’t just cumbersome and time-consuming, they’re actually damaging the doctor-patient relationship. How can UX designers help? Read the PDF transcript of this episode. 

Author and physician Robert "Bob" Wachter, MD discusses social media misinformation and his book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. This episode is part of a Health IT series by the AMA-MSS Committee on Health Information Technology, ...  Show more

Listen to this latest episode of the podcast cohosted with MohammadAli Jardaly, with Dr. Alaa Rihan, a Family Medicine physician and a scholar, Leading Physician Wellbeing Program with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Burnout affects more than 50% of physicians in th ...