S2E7 - AI in healthcare: liberator or impostor?

What if AI made doctors... more human?

This is one of the fascinating paradoxes explored in this episode: Dr. Samuel Gareau Lajoie, a family physician and co-founder of Vetted Medical, reveals that before AI, he spent his consultations with his back turned to his patients, his eyes glued to his keyboard, and that it is precisely technology that has given him back eye contact, allowing him to detect signs he would have missed in the past, such as clues to domestic violence.

Another striking fact: 99% of patients accept the use of AI, but resistance comes from administrators. Meanwhile, caregivers are using ChatGPT secretly, with alarming consequences, such as AI confusing garden shears with surgical retractors on an X-ray.

Laurent Tillement, Director of AI and Health Partnerships at Mila, provides insight from a research perspective to distinguish useful innovation from "technology for technology's sake." This episode completely overturns the commonly held belief that AI dehumanizes medicine.