Medicine and the Machine

'Usually in our clinical practice, you feel confident about a lot of the therapies that you're considering,' Angela Rogers, MD, said. But everything in the ICU is different with COVID-19.

Even with warning, the surge of COVID-19 patients came faster than expected, and hospitalists may need to be ready for 70% loss of staff availability, says Stanford's chief of hospital medicine.

Dr Eric Topol and AI researcher Dr Fei-Fei Li discuss how AI can augment and enhance the human work of healthcare.

In this episode of Medicine and the Machine, Drs Topol and Verghese discuss the loss of humanity in medicine, and how AI offers an exciting opportunity to bring time and presence back to patient care.

Stripping away those human qualities of warmth and competence in our study took away the entire benefit,' Alia Crum explains on this episode of 'Medicine and the Machine.

'We have to return to certain core ideals of healthcare in which caregiving is crucial and in which doctors are able to participate,' says Arthur Kleinman.

In this 'Medicine and the Machine' podcast, Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese talk about the impact that physicians could have on the practice of medicine if they organized their million members.

Danielle Ofri joins Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese on this 'Medicine and the Machine' podcast to discuss whether technology will improve care or whether resources are better spent elsewhere.

Danielle Ofri joins Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese on this 'Medicine and the Machine' podcast to discuss whether AI can offer clinicians, and ultimately patients, more time, a scarce commodity.

In this Medicine and the Machine podcast, Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese discuss the ritual and evolution of the physical exam and its inevitable--and exciting--integration with technology.