• What place does kindness have in medicine?

    Updated: 2023-08-25 10:31:30
    Skip to content Home Topic Index JME What place does kindness have in medicine Posted on August 25, 2023 by Hazem Zohny By Katherine . Cheung Asking whether kindness should play a role in medicine , and if our physicians should be asked to be kind , looks like a redundant question it seems as though any person should answer yes . However , Dr . Edwin Jesudason interestingly points out that in choosing to be kind , we might also have to choose to whom we should be kind , and to what extent . Kindness , he argues , could lead to harm and wrongdoing due to its discretionary . nature Answering whether this is true encourages us to turn to and examine what we mean by “kindness” , and what this concept encompasses . In comparison with other concepts such as empathy or compassion , kindness

  • AI in healthcare: promise, peril, and professional responsibility

    Updated: 2023-08-24 14:05:22
    : , , Skip to content Home Topic Index JME AI in healthcare : promise , peril , and professional responsibility Posted on August 24, 2023 by Hazem Zohny By Helen Smith , John Downer and Jonathan . Ives Everyone is excited about the idea of AI being brought to the bedside , and who wouldn†t be We†re short of all staffing groups , daily stories of how everyone is overloaded , overworked , struggling all help is heartily welcomed , no But , at risk of being called a killjoy here , it†s worth being cautious . Eventually , no matter how good a system is , something is going to go wrong . One day , an AI will give the wrong output a clinician will mistakenly use that output , and a patient will be . hurt Everyone wants AI to be one of the many different types of saviours that will help get

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