Show 1434: Digital Doctoring: Will AI Save Lives or Cause Medical Mayhem?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode, Joe & Terry speak with two physicians who have examined ways that artificial intelligence might contribute to patient care. Can AI help with better diagnoses? Is robotic surgery better? Could AI save lives or is it more likely to cause trouble? You could listen through your local public radio station or get […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.3	For centuries, doctors relied on experience and intuition to diagnose and treat patients.
0:20.8	How is AI changing medicine?
0:23.1	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:31.5	Dr. Art Papyr has developed a decision support system to help health care professionals diagnose
0:39.8	skin problems, but he offers a caution.
0:43.2	If you over-reli on the AI doing work for you, you might lose your natural human abilities
0:51.4	to do a task like drive, fly a plane, or actually think about, does the diagnosis
0:57.4	make sense or not. Coming up on the people's pharmacy, digital doctoring will AI save lives
1:05.4	or cause medical mayhem.
1:20.8	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, rates of COVID-19 are currently low,
1:25.1	but researchers are learning more about long-term cardiac complications.
1:29.3	A study in JAMA Network Open reveals that people who were seriously ill with the infection may have reduced blood flow in the small vessels feeding the heart.
1:35.0	This condition called coronary microvascular dysfunction limits blood to the heart under stress.
1:42.6	This in turn may impair cardiac function. This is just one of a number
1:47.3	of cardiovascular complications that may linger after people seemingly recover from COVID-19.
1:55.2	GLP-1 agonists remain the most sought-after drugs in the pharmacy. They're prescribed for both type 2 diabetes and weight control.
2:04.5	Somaglotides sold under the names Ocempic, Wigobi, and Ribelsus
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