Quotes from the book "Deep Medicine"

This is an excellent book by Eric Topal, in his own words, this book is about finding the right balance between patients, doctors, and machines. 

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

There are about 12 million significant misdiagnoses a year.

Shockingly, up to one-third of medical operations performed are unnecessary.

It's estimated that 30 to 50 percent of the 80 million CT scans in the United States are unnecessary.

In fact, my contention is that we, in the United States are overindulged in shallow medicine.

AIs are nowhere near as smart as rats.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name "artificial intelligence" - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave like humans, and, ultimately, to impact human lives and human society.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report estimates that more than 40% of all healthcare jobs can be automated across the globe.

It's sort of criminal to have radiologists doing this(working in the darkroom for hours) because in the process they are killing people.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT): has many definitions. Chief among these is to change patterns of maladaptive thinking or behavior to "help people to identify and change negative, self-destructive thought patterns".

India has a doctor-to-patient ratio of only 0.7 per 1,000 people, which is less than half that of China(1.5) and substantially less than that of the United States (2.5).

The drug we all take multiple times a day that needs to be personalized most is food.

It only takes an average of 18 seconds from the start of an encounter before doctors interrupt their patients.