Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again 2019

One of America's leading doctors reveals how artificial intelligence will empower doctors and revolutionise patient care Medicine has become inhumane and this has had disastrous consequences. 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. Physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. Artificial intelligence has the potential to change everything doctors do, from taking medical notes and scans to diagnosis and treatment, significantly reducing the cost of medicines and cutting human mortality. By freeing doctors from tasks that interfere with the human connection, artificial intelligence will create a space for true healing to take place between the doctor, who can listen, and the patient, who needs to be heard.