Bob Wachter

How big is it, and is it just your organization and all its branches, or does it go beyond your organization?

When you talk about building out this network of people like yourself, give an example of a particular type of project.

And it's hard to imagine that you couldn't have known about the disease when he had been A, in an emergency department at a different hospital, and then B, sent to you.

How often is that performed on a healthy patient?

Did you identify that relationship?

Or is it just that the machine learning helped you find the cases in which one was related to the other?

Oh boy, that's not very good.

Did you then use the two in tandem, the AI and the humans?

When you look at your colleagues, who's embracing AI or deep learning, as you sometimes call it?

Who's ignoring it?

Who's maybe actively opposing it and so on?

Do you feel like you're sort of at the front edge of a movement?

Coming up after the break, as any new technology spreads, there are the inevitable winners and losers.

The tech companies are playing this as we have no interest in replacing the doctor.

We really want to be a co-pilot.

We want to be your wingman.

But they obviously do want to replace the doctor.

I'm Stephen Dubner.

This is the Freakonomics Radio Guide to Getting Better.

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