A Crisis of Confusion is proving costly for American health care consumers. Dylan Scott of Vox Media wrote about how health care consumers don’t, won’t or can’t navigate the health care system in ways that could save them money. He is correct.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Thursday Links
- A lot of medical and nursing students are planning on doing something other than direct patient care.
- Study: Health care privatization is good for patients.
- Policies established by close referendums tend to stay in effect for many years thereafter. (HT: Tyler)
- Occupational licensing study: Official recognition of out‐of‐state licenses increases employment of licensed occupations without sacrificing service quality.
- A national medical student group called White Coats for Black Lives took the occasion of the murder of more than 1,000 Jews to provide a full-throated expression of solidarity with Palestine.
More Medical Schools Adopt Climate Change Curriculum
What should your doctor have learned in medical school. What should medical schools teach? Physicians I’ve talked to have said medical school is brutal. The amount of knowledge that students need to learn is immense. According to a recent poll up to 25% of medical students are thinking about quitting. One of the biggest stressors is the sheer volume of material that students must master.
Doctors: AI is Not Ready for Prime Time (But it Soon Will)
The New York Times talks to doctors who worry about whether artificial intelligence (AI) is up to the job of assisting in patient care.
In medicine, the cautionary tales about the unintended effects of artificial intelligence are already legendary.
There was the program meant to predict when patients would develop sepsis, a deadly bloodstream infection, that triggered a litany of false alarms. Another, intended to improve follow-up care for the sickest patients, appeared to deepen troubling health disparities.
AI is being tested in various ways. There is no Doctor AI yet, but the algorithms are embedded in decision-support software and even hardware that analyzes mammograms.