Medicine and the Machine

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How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again Feb 21, 2023

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ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Aaron B. Neinstein, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Vice President, Digital Health, UCSF Health, San Francisco, California

Our AI Future is Better Than You Think: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02021-9

Tidepool: https://www.tidepool.org/

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Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable Jan 18, 2023

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Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Hannah Fry, MSc, PhD, Professor, Mathematics of Cities, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine https://hannahfry.co.uk/book/hello-world/

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To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air Dec 22, 2022

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Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Linsey Marr, PhD, Charles P. Lunsford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Study shows cloth face coverings help protect both wearers and those nearby https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/11/eng-marrmasks-1123.html

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How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials Nov 23, 2022

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Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Trish Greenhalgh, OBE, MD, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Orthodoxy, illusio, and playing the scientific game: a Bourdieusian analysis of infection control science in the COVID-19 pandemic [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Res 2021, 6:126

https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16855.3

Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The Lancet, Vol 397; May 2021

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2

Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine October 2022; volume 27; number 5

http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2022-111952

Long covid—an update for primary care. BMJ 2022;378:e072117

http://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-072117

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How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass Oct 13, 2022

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Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Steven Thrasher, PhD, Assistant Professor, Daniel H. Renberg Chair, Department of Journalism, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Illinois

The Viral Underclass https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250796639/theviralunderclass

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The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19 Sep 21, 2022

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Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today.

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Jeremy P. Kamil, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health, Shreveport, Louisiana

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We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID Sep 09, 2022

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Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Christina Pagel, PhD, Professor, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias? Jul 27, 2022

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An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions about bias in medicine.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Judy Gichoya, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35568690/

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Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella Jun 23, 2022

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Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Linda Geng, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University; Co-Director, Stanford Post-COVID Clinic, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, California

https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/linda-geng

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It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets Jun 15, 2022

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Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Demis Hassabis, PhD, Founder and CEO, DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

https://www.deepmind.com/

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