The goal of evidence-based medicine is to gather evidence (like the endodontist) from successful treatments and standardized therapies. Increasingly, medicine is being dragged – kicking and screaming – from an art where individual doctors have their own methods to a science where every doctor follows the same procedures.
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
AI Medical: Would You Consult Dr. Alexa or Dr. Siri
These so-called virtual assistants are algorithms, and function as a form of artificial intelligence (AI). In that regard, you ask questions, and they respond similarly to how an actual assistant would, except much faster. Someday algorithms like Siri and Alexa could provide high quality health advice.
Social Media Boasts a Lot of Bogus Health Information
I was recently on Facebook when a friend of a friend posted this chart. He paired it with a query: Is this due to something we ate? Or something injected in us. Presumably he was referring to food additives and vaccinations. Many of the comments that followed opined that it’s probably a combination of both factors… I began to do some checking, and I quickly found more answers about why rates in the chart had risen so much. Basically, the list of disease burden is bogus, it’s totally wrong, made up, fabricated.