…what it reveals is interesting, what it conceals is vital. For decades, physician scientists have been slaves to a p value of 0.05 or less (there is a less than 5% chance that the findings of the study happened due to chance) or if the confidence interval includes zero. An article in Nature argues that…
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artificial intelligence beating doctors?
Dr. Bertalan Mesko has called AI the stethoscope of the 21st century. Futurism thinks our future doctor may be a robot. The New Yorker agrees. My kids will read this article from the Brookings institute before making a career choice. Physical Exam Doctors have the human touch, correct? No, robots are better at physical exams….
really?!
Tiger Woods – Presidential Medal of Freedom. Same league as Maya Angelou? Barack Obama – Nobel Peace Prize (prior to any real achievements). Same league as Mother Teresa (who got the prize) and Mahatma Gandhi (who did not). Bob Dylan – Nobel Prize for Literature. Same league as Rudyard Kipling and Rabindranath Tagore (both of…
tsimane
Interesting article by Sanjay Gupta, CNN health correspondent re the Tsimane tribe in Bolivia
steve cutts – animator
stevecutts.com happiness- rat race are you lost in the world like me? man
physician quality
Atul Gawande wrote a great article in the New Yorker in 2004 re. physician quality. Every illness is a story, and Annie Page’s began with the kinds of small, unexceptional details that mean nothing until seen in hindsight. Like the fact that, when she was a baby, her father sometimes called her Little Potato Chip,…
mentors
Dr. Kaushik Trivedi sparked my interest in cardiology during and after medical school. I worked with him in his private clinic for a year after I finished medical school. He taught me that the most dangerous heart arrhythmia is unexplained sinus tachycardia. Dr. Warren Jackman taught me everything I know about electrophysiology. His attention to…
patient satisfaction = patient death!
I have been mulling over this thought for some time. For the longest time I have operated under the dictum that healthcare is similar to any other customer service industry. However I think that the pendulum has swung too far where customer service is eclipsing outcomes in the healthcare sector. One could argue that the…