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Deep Medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

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Deep Medicine

By: Eric Topol
Narrated by: Graham Winton
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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.

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All stars
Most relevant
thought provoking, I have already quoted this book multiple times and I know it is one I will return to time and time again.

Excellent analysis of global healthcare

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reading in 2025 and realising most of the early concepts he was mentioning are now being fleshef out into big companies. This book is great for any clinician that is curious about AI and it's application in practice and where the future goes. important to note that he is realistic of limitations, which is good.
As a clinician, I have also thought of some of these concepts so it's good to know there is work being done to make healthcare more efficient and patient focused.
I wonder how far the prototypes and early concepts he mentions will look in another 5-10 years
I would strongly recommend.

Beautifully seeing into the future

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Can’t say much more than the title of my review. Not very well researched. Buzzwords galore and little depth that you would expect from a medical professional

Shallow and underwhelming

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Some interesting ideas but the author’s presentation of data science and AI could have been deeper and more well rounded.

Some interesting ideas

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a sick person with limited superficial knowledge trying to compensate for his lifelong failures

a sick person with limited superficial knowledge

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