The Possibilities and Perils of Digital Health | Jag Singh, MD, PhD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It's been less than a year since ChatGPT was released in November 2022, but in that time, reports have emerged of ChatGPT outperforming physicians in everything from clinical reasoning to documentation and even to empathetic communication with patients. How are we to make sense of the role of clinicians when artificial intelligence and digital health technologies seem to be advancing at a pace beyond our reach? Here to discuss this is Jag Singh, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Harvard M...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.0	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:05.0	And you're listening to The Doctors Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.0	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.
0:13.2	What makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.1	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions that nurture the doctor-patient connection.
0:23.0	What can we learn about the human condition
0:24.8	from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions,
0:30.0	we meet with deep thinkers working across health care,
0:33.0	from doctors and nurses to patients and health care
0:35.4	executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.1	Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heart-breaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.0	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:52.8	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us
0:57.1	about some of life's biggest questions.
0:59.8	It's been less than a year since ChatGPT was released in November 2022, but within that short period of time, reports have emerged of chat GBT outperforming physicians in everything from clinical reasoning to administrative documentation and even to empathetic communication with patients.
1:21.0	How are we to make sense of the role of clinicians when
1:24.8	artificial intelligence and digital health technologies seem to be advancing at a
1:29.2	pace beyond our reach and understanding.
1:32.8	Here to discuss this is Dr. Jag Singh,
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