The next 5 years are going to be incredible. Still, it’s important to stay grounded and not feed into the hype.
Chances are good that you’ve heard people question whether or not ChatGPT will replace doctors. The easy answer here is — no.
But other models from Google can and will.
In this episode, Justin discusses:
* The shortage of Health Care Providers in the United States
* Health Care Provider dependency on the medical version of Wikipedia — Up to Date
* Google’s AI models: MedPaLM2, MedLM, and AMIE
* The use of of AI as a collaborator
* The most likely jobs within healthcare to be impacted negatively in the next 5 years
* How patients will interact with AI models, leading to better healthcare outcomes
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Episode Timeline
0:00 Intro
1:14 The Topics Discussed Today
4:15 Use This Episode Timeline to Scan Ahead to What Applies to You
4:42 The Shortage of Doctors In the US
8:22 The Purpose of Physician Associates and Nurse Practitioners
12:39 The Stresses of Being a Healthcare Provider
14:04 Wikipedia for Doctors
18:17 Brief Intro to LLM's
22:29 Meet the Mind Blowing MedPaLM2
27:46 Meet the New UptoDate — MedLM
30:17 Meet Your New Doctor — AMIE
33:39 The Problem for PA's and NP's
39:47 The Future of Medicine In Your Pocket
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References
Provider Statistics
* https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-president-sounds-alarm-national-physician-shortage
* https://www.statista.com/statistics/186269/total-active-physicians-in-the-us/
* https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291071.htm
* https://www.aanp.org/about/all-about-nps/np-fact-sheet#:~:text=There%20are%20more%20than%20385%2C000,NPs)%20licensed%20in%20the%20U.S.&text=More%20than%2039%2C000%20new%20NPs,academic%20programs%20in%202021%2D2022.
* https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291229.htm
World Population
* https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
Schooling References
* https://extension.harvard.edu/blog/how-to-become-a-physician-assistant/#:~:text=To%20become%20a%20PA%2C%20you,for%20two%20to%20three%20years.
* https://uthscsa.edu/medicine/education/ume/outreach/become-doctor
* https://www.usmle.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_assistant
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner
* https://www.aanp.org/news-feed/explore-the-variety-of-career-paths-for-nurse-practitioners
* https://www.usmle.org/scores-transcripts/examination-results-and-scoring#:~:text=*%20USMLE%20Step%201%20score%20reporting,of%20a%20three%2Ddigit%20score.
Artificial Intelligence Models
* https://sites.research.google/med-palm/
* https://blog.research.google/2024/01/amie-research-ai-system-for-diagnostic_12.html
* https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/medlm/overview#medlm-versus-palm
* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06291-2