Best American Science and Nature Writing

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Jennifer Doudna on gene-editing

The biochemist Jennifer Doudna—who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 2020—reveals a few books that she thinks best equip one to understand the promise and potential peril of the gene-editing revolution.

https://www.threads.net/@newyorkermag/post/DBM4Oo3hAiz?xmt=AQGzR8uWJUxEKH34B6UaClaVdllgDJY1CdCOjOFZ8mbw9Q

A teaching hospital

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I’m a Doctor. ChatGPT’s Bedside Manner Is Better Than Mine.

As a young, idealistic medical student in the 2000s, I thought my future job as a doctor would always be safe from artificial intelligence.

At the time it was already clear that machines would eventually outperform humans at the technical side of medicine. Whenever I searched Google with a list of symptoms from a rare disease, for example, the same abstruse answer that I was struggling to memorize for exams reliably appeared within the first few results.

But I was certain that the other side of practicing medicine, the human side, would keep my job safe. This side requires compassion, empathy and clear communication between doctor and patient. As long as patients were still composed of flesh and blood, I figured, their doctors would need to be, too. The one thing I would always have over A.I. was my bedside manner.

When ChatGPT and other large language models appeared, however, I saw my job security go out the window...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/ai-chatgpt-medicine-doctor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Medical Gaslighting

By Ilana Jacqueline
Narrated by Lori Prince

Listen on Audible:
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DFMX44S4?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp