Here's How AI Will Make Dads

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How AI Will Make Dads Healthier (and Live Longer)

With all due respect to my doctor friends.

AI will replace doctors.

Check this out….

I messed up my knee a couple of weeks ago, while playing soccer with my kids.

Dad injury.

I had to get an MRI.

Here is the diagnosis I received via email right before bed…

Holy sh!t is my knee totally hosed?

All the questions that went through my head as I tried to fall asleep.

How am I going to chase my kids around?

How am I going to hike and bike and ski?

What kind of surgery will I need?

Is my knee repairable?

When I woke up in the morning, I opened ChatGPT and prompted it by saying this:

Good morning you are a world-class orthopedic surgeon. I'm a 43 year old male with 3 young kids. I had a bad knee injury.

My goal: Balance a speedy return to activity (hiking, biking, walking) with minimizing pain and mobility later in life.

I'm going to give you my MRI diagnosis. Please do the following: 1) tell me what each of these injuries mean so a 5th grader could understand it, and 2) give me the optimal recommendation for me to achieve my goal.

Damn, it even started with “I’m sorry about your injury” (empathy)

I felt a little bit better.

The news isn’t great, but of the list of seven things, only two were serious, and I didn’t understand that until I got the diagnosis from ChatGPT.

Doctors lookout.

AI is already being used to read medical images like MRIs and X-rays to improve accuracy and reduce time to diagnosis.

And now, Generative AI (ChatGPT) can communicate, with empathy, what is wrong so patients can understand it.

Now, instead of replacing doctors, it is more likely to supercharge doctors so that every patient gets the best care delivered with empathy no matter who their doctor is.

This is exciting for at least 4 reasons:

1/ Knowledge is power. 

As a patient, I want my diagnosis to mean something to me. If I understand what’s wrong, I am more likely able to be part of my own care

2/ Access to the latest and greatest research. 

The idea that I can get access to a more accurate diagnosis from the latest in research, no matter who my doctor is, is exciting.

3/ Less burnout.

Doctors and nurses are busy, burnt out, and need help. If AI could give them automatic access to the latest research based on the diagnosis and help them communicate it with empathy it would reduce the burden on them.

4/ Prevent disease.

As AI and computing power become more available it can be applied to our personal health data from our smart watches and annual lab results. AI will, in the not-to-distant future, be able to predict illnesses before it’s too late.

This is great news for us dads, not only helping us with today’s ailments but also helping us prevent future diseases

And this is great news for our kids, who will likely only know healthcare augmented by AI.

Like stories of VHSs and the house phone, our kids will likely be baffled by stories of cancer and heart disease only caught once there was a tumor or a heart attack.

The future of medicine is so bright.

Now let's see if Dr. ChatGPT can get me the right care so I can get back to my active life.

This Week's Interesting Thing:

I learned something fascinating this past weekend.

We take clean drinking water for granted.

Clean drinking water is the most important thing to public health.

And not too long ago, it was a serious issue.

I was in Chicago, and we went on the architecture boat tour.

And in the late 1800s the city was ravaged with disease because Chicagoans were dumping their toilets and trash in the Chicago River.

And it was polluting their drinking water source, Lake Michigan.

So they did what any normal city does…they reversed the flow of the river.

Over 600 people lost their lives over 8 years, 8500 laborers, 28 miles, and over $1B (in today’s dollars).

The goal was to send waste water away from their fresh water source and flush it down the Mississippi River to…St. Louis (damn, that’s shitty).

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