by Brandon Cohen (AUGUST 16, 2018)
A recent article on Medscape opined that the overwhelming majority of physicians are making diagnostic errors and that increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) could help alleviate this problem. Art Papier, MD, a dermatologist and medical informatics specialist, described some specific devices currently on the market designed to help the modern practitioner. The article sparked a lively debate in the comments section among a broad range of healthcare professionals.
Some were not fully on board with all of this new technology. One acerbic physician assistant predicted the course that medicine might take. “The day is coming when you will pull up to the first kiosk, tell it your symptoms, pull up to the second kiosk where you give a drop of blood, then pull up to the next kiosk for your prescription. CMNHI (Corporate Medicine No Humans Involved) is the wave of the future, and I wasted all this time on education and experience.
Others saw no reason to fear the machines. An obstetrician wrote: “These apps are great aids. We use many every day just like we use computers to read EKG patterns. Many computers read mammograms and other x-ray patterns. Many more will come.”
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