Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare | How AI is Saving Lives
Let me share something that blew my mind during a recent hospital visit. My uncle was diagnosed with a lung nodule that his doctor almost missed. The radiologist later told us, "Between you and me, our new AI system flagged this. I might have overlooked it on a busy day." That tiny nodule, caught early enough for minimally invasive surgery, might have been a death sentence if discovered six months later. This isn't some far-off future technology. It's happening right now, in hospitals everywhere. I've spent the last three years interviewing doctors, patients, and healthcare technologists about AI's growing role in medicine, and what I've found has changed how I think about healthcare forever. How We Got Here: The Messy, Real-World Evolution The Bumpy Road to Medical AI Anyone remember IBM's Watson for Oncology? Back in 2016, it was supposed to revolutionize cancer care. Then it flopped spectacularly. One doctor I interviewed called it "a cauti...