Medicine and the Machine

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  • How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again

    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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    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    33 min
  • Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

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

    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

    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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    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    38 min
  • To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air

    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:

    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

    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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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    32 min
  • How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

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

    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

    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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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    41 min
  • How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass

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

    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

    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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    Medscape's Chief Cardiology Correspondent Dr John M. Mandrola's This Week In Cardiology

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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    31 min
  • The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19

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

    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

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

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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    53 min
  • We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID

    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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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    40 min
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?

    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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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    37 min
  • Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella

    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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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    36 min
  • It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets

    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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    Medscape's Chief Cardiology Correspondent Dr John M. Mandrola's This Week In Cardiology

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    https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

    For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]

    45 min

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