Meet my new co-pilot in the doctor's office: Artificial Intelligence

Doctors believe Artificial Intelligence is now saving lives, after a major advancement in breast cancer screenings. A.I. is detecting early signs of the disease, in some cases years before doctors would find the cancer on a traditional scan. The more I learn about the growing uses of Artificial intelligence in health care, the more convinced I become about its essential place in not just the lab or radiology suite but also in the doctor's office. It can help usher in a world where tests and treatments are applied on an individual basis based on a patient's unique history and predicament. ChatGPT recently passed a radiology board style exam, even as it also informed one of my patients that his hemorrhoids might be from prolonged sitting before I thought to mention that possibility to him.