This podcast generated from this blog post “perfectly compulsive, perfectly smart” discusses the critical importance of not falling into the efficiency trap of algorithms and treatment pathways. Algorithmic thinking is the bane of modern medicine -ask patient where it hurts, touch the part that hurts and describe it, order labs and imaging studies, read the report and do what it says. That space between the algorithm and the truth is where AI will step in. The patient with a rare disease usually struggles within this system.
A Surgeon's Notes 