Tag: professions
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AI deprecating core disciplinary skills
Every profession has adopted technology in ways that deprecate some of the skills that were core to the profession. For example, I imagine that learning how to develop photos in a darkroom was once a core part of learning photography. Outside of niche contexts, I wonder how many photographers still develop film in darkrooms. The…
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How to replace a physiotherapist (or any professional, really)
Rowe, M., Nicholls, D. A., & Shaw, J. (2021). How to replace a physiotherapist: Artificial intelligence and the redistribution of expertise. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. I’m really excited to finally share this article that I’ve been working on for a couple of years with David Nicholls and Jay Shaw. I say a couple of years…
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Seeing beyond our own paradigms
Yesterday I saw this tweet from Enrico Coiera: So I downloaded the editorial and noted these sections: Through the Internet, the public has access to a growing supply of information on health and disease, often of variable quality and relevance. As a result, providing information on health will no longer be the exclusive remit of…
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Comment: New robot does superior job sampling blood.
The results were comparable to or exceeded clinical standards, with an overall success rate of 87% for the 31 participants whose blood was drawn. For the 25 people whose veins were easy to access, the success rate was 97%. The device includes an ultrasound image-guided robot that draws blood from veins. A fully integrated device,…
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Comment: Will robots make doctors obsolete? Nothing could be further from the truth.
The problem of overdiagnosis is often mentioned in relation to two common cancers: breast and prostate. In both cases, enhanced technology is already detecting small abnormalities that may never result in harm during a lifetime. Machine-learning may trump human interpretation but merely making a diagnosis does not bring us closer to the truth about the…