Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

In a 1981 editorial on using a computer to interpret risk after exercise stress testing, Robert Califf and Robert Rosati wrote, “Proper interpretation and use of computerized data will depend as much on wise doctors as any other source of data in the past.”

These historians of the now begin with the study of what is today, asking not how to avoid the perils of the past but how to maximize the advantages of the future.

In short, even as a guide to what to avoid, the past is unreliable.

Only the future is certain because it is still ours to make.

each man and woman is ill in his or her own way.