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AI is increasingly helping doctors to discover diseases, but also to find the right treatment for each patient. However, rest assured, a computer will never replace them, as doctor and journalist Damien Mascret says on the set of 19/20, Thursday May 18.
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize medicine, first for difficult diagnoses. “There are over 8,000 identified rare diseases and more are being discovered every week, how can a doctor know about them all”, asks the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret on the set of 19/20, Thursday, May 18. AIs will also make it possible to make earlier diagnoses. “An AI has just succeeded in diagnosing Parkinson’s disease from a drop of blood, 15 years before the first symptoms”explains the doctor.
Doctors, despite everything, irreplaceable
And it may also be possible to improve treatments. “In intensive care, for example, an AI has just shown after learning more than 3,000 patient files, that it was able to simultaneously monitor 277 parameters of a patient, to optimize his treatment from hour to hour”, reports Damien Mascret. They also make it possible to know when to start treatment and when to stop it, delicate choices in intensive care. But artificial intelligence cannot replace doctors “The human aspect of care, attention to others, empathy, taking into account the fragility of patients: all of this is irreplaceable”emphasizes Damien Mascret.
The doctors will be accompanied by artificial intelligences with which they will be able to exchange and which will be digital super-assistants. However, “the decision, therefore the responsibility, will remain in the hands of the doctors”concludes the doctor.
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