9 September 2021
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
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HBA PHILADELPHIA PRESENTS

Leaders Are Readers: Virtual Book Club September 2021 - Deep Medicine by Eric Topol

Eric Topol’s Deep Medicine makes the case that medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound.

Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment, greatly cutting down the cost of medicine and reducing human mortality. By freeing physicians from the tasks that interfere with human connection, AI will create space for the real healing that takes place between a doctor who can listen and a patient who needs to be heard.

Topol describes some of the Shallow Medicine conditions that are behind today’s high percentage of misdiagnoses. The insufficient time, insufficient context, and insufficient data that drive doctors to treat patients in a one-size-fits-all approach. Too often, today’s doctors depend on System 1 thinking – thinking that is automatic, quick, intuitive, effortless. This approach uses heuristics or rules of thumb to come up with a rapid solution. In contrast, System 2 thinking is a slow, reflective process involving analytical effort. AI can make System 2 thinking possible by providing the doctor with the deep data needed about the patient.

Despite the potential negative effects of AI, including potential dissemination of data without a patient’s consent, use of big data by companies to gain an unfair advantage, increased disenfranchisement of a doctor who lets the AI speak for him, Topol feels strongly that AI has the possibility of bringing back what he calls “deep empathy”. Although AI is only in its infancy, especially in medicine, ultimately there is the potential that AI not only frees up the doctor from mundane, time-consuming tasks, but also puts into the doctor’s hands in-depth medical history about the patient, enabling the doctor to truly provide individualized, targeted medicine to his patients.

Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWAnjdQy5kE

Facilitated by Sonia Aviles, Senior Project Manager and Acquisition Integration Leader, Integra Life Sciences.
Hosted by Henny Geradts, President, US, Healthcare interAction


Additional Information 
Next Book Club Meetings:
-October 7th - Wealthy Girl: 7 Steps to Prosperity, Peace and Personal Power by Charisse Conanan Johnson
-November 11th - You are your best thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown


Agenda 
• 5:30 to 5:40 Welcome/Social
• 5:40 to 6:40 Discussion about the book
• 6:40 to 6:45 Wrap up and introduction of next book
• 6:45 to 7:00 Optional Social Networking Time

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Event is open to: HBA Members only

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