Can AI make healthcare human again? with Eric Topol
The TED Interview
The Triumph of Smallpox Eradication
We don't do a good job of reminding people of the progress we've made in the past, he says. Smallpox eradication is not part of the canon of great breakthroughs that everyone learns in school. And so when you have a new threat that involves the virus and vaccines, people don't have that history accessible to them in this way. There's nothing more important, as faras a medical intervention than preventing a disease, right?
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