Category: Devon Herrick

Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors in 10 Years

Posted on by Devon Herrick

Physicians used to be patients’ primary source of health information. Nowadays, people look up diseases and conditions online, learning more in a few minutes than their doctors would ever have time to explain. More than half of Americans (58.5%) used the Internet to look up heath information in 2022. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make diagnosis even easier. Microsoft founder, Bill Gates even thinks AI will be able to replace your doctor in 10 years.


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Trump Executive Order to Boost Price Transparency of Hospitals and Health Plans

Posted on by Devon Herrick

Price transparency is the natural response when firms compete for consumers on the basis of price, quality, and other amenities. Firms competing for consumers do not have to be required to disclose prices, they lose business when they fail to reveal prices. The U.S. healthcare system is not competitive, however. Thus, firms either believe price transparency is of no use to them, or they realize it actively reduces profits.

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Are Doctors Pathologizing Mild Symptoms Deeming Normal People Sick?

Posted on by Devon Herrick

Consider ADHD, irritable bowel syndrome, Tourette’s, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, autism, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, dyslexia and dyspraxia, mast cell activation syndrome and Chiari malformation? What about depression, anxiety, and a whole host of other mental health syndromes? These maladies have various symptoms in common with significant overlap. Many are also found in other diseases and in people with no disease at all.

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