Good Life Project Future of Medicine: AI vs. Doctors, Who Wins? We ALL Do! [Ep. 2]
Nov 10, 2025
Dr. Charlotte Blease, an Associate Professor and researcher at Harvard Medical School, discusses the transformative potential of AI in healthcare. She reveals that doctors can only keep up with 2% of new medical research, leading to significant challenges in patient care. The conversation explores how AI could enhance diagnosis and patient interactions, as well as the ethical dilemmas of relying on technology over human clinicians. Blease also touches on AI's ability to level healthcare disparities, while highlighting concerns about data privacy and trust.
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Medicine Is A Victim Of Its Success
- Medicine is a success yet strained: longer lives and chronic illness overload systems and clinicians.
- Charlotte Blease argues human limits create a ceiling on care even with abundant funding.
Burnout And Paperwork Drive Errors
- Half of doctors in the UK and US report burnout and paperwork dominates their day.
- Burnout and administrative overload increase diagnostic and medication errors, harming patients.
Information Grows Faster Than Doctors Can Read
- Biomedical publications arrive every 39 seconds, outpacing doctors' ability to read them.
- Blease calculated clinicians could only read ~2% and would need 22.5 hours daily to keep up.
