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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

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It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

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A subsequent article in BMC Medicine highlighted the dearth of evidence. The title of this article kind of says it all: The authors suggest a depression screening RCT should exclude individuals with known depression, randomize people to screening or no screening, and make the same mental health services available to both groups.

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How medical school fails students

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The medical college admission test contains many irrelevant questions that have nothing to do with being a doctor. There was a follow-up component to the biochemistry question, and it too was a logic puzzle, however, unfortunately it was incorrect. The big problems (this article) are never discussed. Subscribe now

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Hundreds of Patients Wrongly Diagnosed with Cancer Due to Software Mix-up

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The biotech firm known as Grail made headlines earlier this year thanks to its signature Galleri blood tests, which can detect up to 50 different kinds of cancer early on to improve patient outcomes. The tests were hailed as the “first of its kind” when it hit the market in 2023. It’s that they simply didn’t exist.

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Should Doctors Use Chat-GPT to Practice Medicine?

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Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. “So, what tests they would order and what treatments they would order.”

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The AI Doctor Will Message You Now

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I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. We covered an early, ingenious article by John W. The test characteristics of most data from the history is poor. I am not an artificial intelligence skeptic or pessimist.

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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

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For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. This finding suggests an increased risk of coronary artery disease; clinical follow up recommended.”

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