Replacing Docs or Not? AI in Healthcare

Demetri Sampas discusses AI’s growing role in medicine, opening with a case at Boston Children’s Hospital where an algorithm matched a child in liver failure to a successful unproven therapy. He argues AI will handle repetitive, cut-and-dried cases rather than replace doctors, and notes the 2018 FDA approval of a diabetic retinopathy screening tool.

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