Medicine

I would not, at least not yet. There have been almost no tests of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in real-world healthcare or on real patient data. The fact that ChatGPT or MedPaLMv2 can pass a medical exam (example), or answer multiple-choice questions does not really say much, as…

Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US. So why do we trust doctors so much? Medical errors are indeed a significant problem in the United States and around the world. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, medical errors account for an…

Imagine you’re feeling a little sick. So you go see a doctor. The problem is, it’s the year 1200. And medical science isn’t that good. Your doctors cuts you. He lets a little bit of your blood out of your body. Then, he gives you a plant. You have no…

Have you ever heard the saying, “you are what you eat”? Well, it turns out that you are also what you house inside you, and that is a lot of bacteria. In fact, for every human cell in your body, there are ten bacterial cells. That’s right; you’re more bacteria…

The use of psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, to treat mental health conditions has gained increasing attention in recent years. While more research is needed to fully understand their potential benefits, early studies suggest that these substances may hold promise for a variety of mental health conditions. One mental…

How a Danish doctor helped transform the care of critically ill patients Until the middle of the 20th century, seriously ill patients were generally nursed on ordinary medical or surgical wards rather than in designated units with specially trained staff as they are today. Although there were several individuals such as Florence Nightingale and Harvey Cushing who laid the foundations, the first designated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was only established seventy years ago. This transformation of patient care arose from an epidemic that swept across the western world.