How will AI help my doctor?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We discuss how AI could help health professionals work better, detect diseases earlier and even change the way people around the world look after themselves.
Also this week: Shiona McCallum interviews a businesswoman who is trying to make female health tech more accessible and affordable. And we have a good news story that originated on the darker side of the internet.
Presenter: Shiona McCallum Producer: Tom Quinn
(Image: A photo of a female doctor sitting at a desk in a hospital lab. She is using AI technology on a laptop computer. Credit: Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | An early start here. It's time to kick off. |
| 0:10.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:11.9 | What a line-up. |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:16.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:18.3 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:20.2 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:23.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:25.0 | BBC sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, I'm Shona McCallum. |
| 0:30.6 | And welcome to Tech Life, the program about technology that's making a difference to lives all over the world. |
| 0:38.0 | In today's edition, we're looking at two different areas of health tech, |
| 0:41.7 | something we know you, our listeners, are very interested in. |
| 0:45.3 | In a moment, I'll be discussing how far the use of AI has evolved in healthcare so far |
| 0:50.1 | and what it might be able to do for us in the future. |
| 0:53.3 | A little later, I'll be speaking to a businesswoman |
| 0:55.6 | who's trying to make female health tech more accessible and affordable. |
| 1:00.4 | And I'll bring you a good news story that originated out of the darker side of the internet. |
| 1:05.5 | It was a really lovely outcome to something that we've been seeing for years and years and years and |
| 1:11.5 | one that we don't always get a result. Artificial intelligence is moving into every corner of our lives, but healthcare is a whole different challenge. |
| 1:41.3 | From Paris to Cairo, doctors face life or death decisions every day. |
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