I recently read the book, The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond, by Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane – which has a fairly self-explanatory title regarding what it’s about.

The topics covered include having primary care practitioners use AI to help identify an illness from a patient’s symptoms, plus provide relevant potential treatments. Also how GPT-4 should be able to help reduce the burden of paperwork in the healthcare profession. For example, by speeding up the process of writing doctor visit reports.

It also looks at how useful GPT-4 could be for translating medical jargon into layperson’s language – or even into a language that isn’t English, which would certainly be a benefit for a lot of patients.

There’s also a strong focus on having GPT-4’s outputs verified by a human throughout the process to avoid potential errors, plus a section related to clinical trials which I’ll look at in the next vid.