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The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here

Dhruv Khullar • The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here

Kevin Kelly’s quantified self and Gary Wolf’s data-driven life. With its mobile sensors and apps

David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter

Although the attractiveness of these products to consumers is clear, direct-to-consumer products bypass the typical filters and safeguards of health-care systems. The risk is that low value, or even harmful, products will inundate the commercial health-care market. There are cautionary instances of high-profile direct-to-consumer companies, such as... See more

E Ray Dorsey • Just a moment...

Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy. Healing the sick was an egalitarian project,

Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus

“The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is to provide composite, panoramic views of individuals’ medical data; to improve decision making; to avoid errors such as misdiagnosis and unnecessary procedures; to help in the ordering and interpretation of appropriate tests; and to recommend treatment.”

Eric Topol • Deep Medicine | Eric Topol

Expensive Human-Centric Service + AI = Better Access & Affordability

Rex Woodbury • AI's Privilege Expansion

This is why I insist my patients undergo a DEXA scan annually—and I am far more interested in their visceral fat than their total body fat.

Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

The benefits for human society are likely to be immense. AI doctors could provide far better and cheaper healthcare for billions of people, particularly for those who currently receive no healthcare at all. Thanks to learning algorithms and biometric sensors, a poor villager in an underdeveloped country might come to enjoy far better healthcare via

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

It disseminates world-class medical knowledge equally throughout highly unequal societies, and lets all doctors and nurses focus on the human tasks that no machine can do: making patients feel cared for and consoling them when the diagnosis isn’t bright.