SYSK Selects: Will Computers Replace Doctors?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With savvy and health-conscious people taking control of their wellbeing through apps and sites, technology is meeting the desire for individuals' responsibility for their health. But is the day coming soon when doctors will be obsolete, replaced by computers that read our health-related data to treat us? We explore these questions and more in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S. Lex, I've chosen Will Computers
0:37.2	Replace Doctors.
0:39.0	It's an episode so dated I still wore a Fitbit when we recorded it.
0:43.9	No but seriously, it is a really interesting episode and even though we recorded it years
0:49.1	ago, the stuff that we're talking about still quite hasn't come to fruition.
0:53.7	So sit back and enjoy this peek into the future.
1:01.7	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:08.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:12.6	I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:15.2	Our guest producer, Noel is here.
1:17.6	Yeah, Jerry needs a buffer day from her Christmas break.
1:21.0	You can't save that.
1:22.7	Sure I can.
1:23.7	No, she's at home on her buffer day.
1:26.0	And the freezing cold, because we record these somewhat in advance, we are in the midst
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