Joy Kong, MD argues clinicians need AI to handle computational limits. A rare brain infection took months and multiple specialists to diagnose and treat, but AI could have surfaced the right options much earlier.
At some point you've got to borrow computation powers than your own brain. So I definitely think the way medicine's going, we need AI to help us.
I can speak to that from personal experience. Very close friend's daughter developed a brain infection condition that was very, very rare, maybe only a few cases in the country. And literally the way it was diagnosed by trying different treatments until something was found that worked for her. And very complex case. But I would like to believe that if we had the AI tools that we have today, the physicians would've seen a additional possible treatments early on rather than having to navigate specialist to specialist and, you know, 10 states until they hit the right treatments that, aha, that's what it is.
