Can AI make healthcare human again? with Eric Topol

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Eric Topol is a leading health expert whose writing and explainers about Covid-19 have helped people better understand the complexities of the global pandemic. As a doctor, author, and one of the most cited researchers in medicine, Eric has dedicated his time to thinking about the human genome and how digital tools like artificial intelligence can help us individualize and improve medicine. In this episode, he shares his thoughts why he believes healthcare and the doctor-patient relationship feel broken, and how AI can revolutionize–and save–the future of medicine.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.0	Let's talk about this war on white people.
0:05.0	That's a pro-quiling, it's good for you.
0:07.0	Bill the Keystone pipeline, deport illegals, build the wall.
0:10.0	I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial,
0:13.0	a new five-part series from WNMC's On the Media,
0:17.0	about how the American right came to dominate Talk Radio
0:21.0	and how one company is launching a conservative media empire
0:25.0	from the airwaves.
0:26.0	Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.
0:35.0	Welcome to the Ted interview.
0:36.0	I'm your host, Stephen Johnson.
0:39.0	The emergence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2,
0:43.0	roughly two and a half years ago,
0:45.0	posed a formidable challenge to many aspects of our lives.
0:48.0	Our immune systems, our healthcare institutions,
0:51.0	the basic routines of everyday life.
0:54.0	But in a real sense, it was also a significant challenge
0:58.0	to our understanding.
1:00.0	Over the course of the pandemic,
1:02.0	we've been forced to make potentially life or death decisions
1:06.0	that revolve around the latest data on vaccine efficacy
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