AI and the art of medicine: how AI can enhance the humanity of medical care. From the article:

The great variability of human beings is what makes medicine an art…. If AI can help with a more astute knowledge of the patient and the “framily” (ie, unpaid caregivers, who are friends and family), it would be the kind of advance that could help clinicians become better at delivering more humanistic care….

Humans in need want the best of what science and medicine have to offer. Particularly, in the setting of serious and chronic illnesses, patients in need want their physicians to be human beings who care, communicate clearly, and are compassionate and express empathy. As Peabody famously observed long ago, “One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.” Bettering the ability of physicians to truly care for and express caring is the challenge for colleagues in computer science and medical informatics. Systems that augment the diagnostic and scientific task of treating disease are exciting and wonderful, but is it possible to invent and discover applications that can enhance the human abilities in clinicians to better engage in caring for the patient? This possibility would be a significant breakthrough. Many people are hopeful that it is just the sort of breakthrough that intelligent humans can achieve.

h/t FullAI (@FullArtIntel)