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When a panel of licensed health-care professionals compared two responses to patient's questions:  ChatGPT's response to a patient's questions compared to a medical doctor's response to the same patient's questions. ChatGPT won, by a landslide. In fact, the panel of medical experts preferred ChatGPT's responses to nearly 200 “doctor-patient” exchanges ...

hi We just filled out the 21 page application for a patient to be able to use the TTC wheel trans service. The form is very long. Very complex. Very confusing. Requires a doctors signature. It is impossible to fill this out if you are blind. The 21 page very ...

Source: Bloomberg Business Week. In the third part of our series on TikTok and its trust and safety issues, we look at how an algorithm has led some teenagers down rabbit holes related to body image, self-harm, depression and suicide. This includes the story of parents in New York whose son stepped ...

Julia is a case manager at RCM Health.ca Julia works for us from the south of France. Her husband is in the wine business. The other day her youngest daughter, age 3, fell and sustained a small laceration to her forehead. Before going to the ER which is a 15 ...

A doom loop in healthcare. Written totally by my new best friend ChatGPT.  I give my new best friend all the credit. I did not get in his/her way. My advice, step aside and let it happen. A doom loop in healthcare refers to a vicious cycle of problems that ...

The Canadian think tank Second Street said that more than 11,500 patients across Canada died in 2020-21 while waiting for surgeries, diagnostic scans and appointments with specialists. If this is true and it might not be, then the current healthcare policies are clearly harmful. What should be done to rectify ...

Our healthcare system is a wicked problem. The system is broken. Mostly because healthcare has not been allowed to adapt and evolve. So we asked ChatGPT what to do. First to define what type of problem is healthcare. Then to look at possible approaches. A wicked problem is a term ...

The New York Times magazine features a story about advanced stroke treatments at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta. The treatment is an endovascular thrombectomy or EVT. A procedure in which a clot is physically extracted with a long catheter from a stroke patient's brain, restoring blood flow. The key ...

But there is a very different way of understanding growth, disruption and crisis. It is articulated not by a psychologist, but by a student of the German existentialist Martin Heidegger. This is Otto Friedrich Bollnow, who started off in 1925 with a PhD in physics, and whose pedagogical and philosophical writing ...