Today about three-quarters of physicians have a boss. They are employees of hospitals, private equity-owed group practices, and even work for retail clinics. The trust doctors and patients may have shared in 1963 is eroding due to insurance coverage, time constraints and even perverse medical norms.
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors in 10 Years
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.
Read more at:
- People: Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors, Teachers in Next 10 Years
- Harvard Magazine: Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
Thursday Links
- What conservatives got wrong about covid.
- Food regulation is a regulatory jungle.
- The 2025 World Happiness Report: solitary activities, including solo meals, can lead to depression and shorter life expectancies.
- 90% of rare diseases have no approved treatments. AI may be the answer. (NYT)
Wednesday Links
- Elon Musk: AI-powered sex robots aren’t far away from the U.S. market: “less than five years probably.”
- Disney has spent $270 million on Snow White ($450 million, if you include prints and advertising costs, according to Vulture), and it hopes everyone will ignore the movie.
- The federal work force has been rising. What are all those people doing?
- The greatest inequality is among the elderly, and the most important reason is differences in the amount people choose to save over their work life.
- Up until the 1980s it was widely believed that babies could not feel pain. So, doctors subjected them to a lot of it.