This tweet came floating down my Twitter stream yesterday. Allison, a medical student, remarked on an impending podcast interview. As quickly as her tweet appeared in my stream it was gone. There was a reply by me as well as another premedical student that I could see. But otherwise, not a lot of pomp and circumstance. What’s remarkable is that students like ... Continue Reading about The Second Nature of Public Medical Students
Flipping the MCAT
It seems that the AAMC, Khan Academy and the RWJF have teamed up to develop training videos for the new MCAT. This unique partnership will solicit student-generated videos covering subject matter from the new MCAT. The best submissions will receive an all expense paid trip to the Khan headquarters where they will receive individualized training from Khan Jedi ... Continue Reading about Flipping the MCAT
Embracing Our Transhuman Future
As time passes, pieces of us will be replaced by artificial elements. Insulin pumps, pacemakers, artificial joints and limbs, exoskeletons, and cochlear implants. Neurochemical enhancement represents another way that we transform ourselves. Technology has made us transhuman. This is from The Techno-Human Condition by Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz: Until ... Continue Reading about Embracing Our Transhuman Future
How to Create a Mind
Review of How to Create a Mind. As Watson makes his march toward clinical reasoning, the idea of a computer replicating the mind of a physician doesn’t seem that far off. Despite wide skepticism of this eventuality, the evidence supports that machines will ultimately be able to do a lot of what I do in my clinic. That’s the idea of Ray Kurzweil’s new book, How to ... Continue Reading about How to Create a Mind
Why Vinod Khosla is Right
Recently Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems, keynoted Rock Health’s Health Innovation Summit where he offered a bleak outlook on the future of the MD. David Shaywitz at Forbes has some interesting commentary that’s worth a peek. Davis Liu and Venture Beat’s Matt Marshall offered nice reviews. Khosla's Techcrunch piece, Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms, is ... Continue Reading about Why Vinod Khosla is Right
The Real-Time Doctor’s Visit
Lots of thinking about measurement and the future at this weekend's Health Foo. One thing's clear going forward: our bodies will be increasingly connected with the system. Sensors will supplement, if not replace, the eyes, hands and ears that once did the monitoring. As patients we were once defined by our "annual visit with the doctor" where he would look, ... Continue Reading about The Real-Time Doctor’s Visit