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“Yet I couldn’t help but ask about whether his AI would eventually tackle more complex clinical problems such as diagnosis. “I have no plan to do diagnosis,” Shah said. I asked why. “I don’t think the leverage is there as much as it’s in nursing, and I don’t think it’s safe enough. It’s not the place to start.” I was impressed that, while Shah is clearly confident-bordering-on-cocky, he’s also savvy enough to avoid repeating the mistakes of the 1980s—when a group of AI pioneers chose to start with diagnosis because it was the most exciting problem.”
― Robert Wachter, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

“A 2024 study of more than one hundred thousand women in Norway found that AI-assisted analyses of three mammograms, one performed every two years, could accurately predict future risk of breast cancer, even when none of the scans showed evidence of active cancer.”
― Robert Wachter, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

“I don’t think I can take a sixteen-year-old and teach them to do neuroradiology in a day.”
― Robert Wachter, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

“The plight of the Jewish refugees on the ship the St. Louis, turned away from the United States with over nine hundred Jews on board, was also well covered in the U.S. press (although it would be years before most Americans learned how many of those passengers were sent back to Europe and died in the Holocaust).”
― Carla Kaplan, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford