Morning,

You know the deal by now. News. AI. Radiology. I read the journal articles so you don't have to.

Today I'm taking a 15 minute read down to 3. Just think, with that extra 12 minutes you could learn a bunch of fun keyboard shortcuts (ctrl + shift + t pulls up the most recently closed tab. See?! Fun!)

Today's agenda:

• Chat GPT and the Future of Medical Writing

Yo dawg, I heard you like AI

RSNA recently published an article that was partially written by ChatGPT, the AI chatbot created by OpenAI. If you aren't familiar with ChatGPT by now, I find it strange that you are a reader of this newsletter and I'm keeping my eyes on you 👀.

So, it's happening. The revolution has begun. Vinod Khosla wasn't wrong. He was just early when he said radiologists were going to be as obsolete as companies who sold ringtones.

Okay, not really. Khosla was wrong. Big time wrong actually. Like most of healthcare specialties, we have a global shortage of radiologists that is only growing. However, Vinod may have been correct that radiology is uniquely positioned to benefit from the introduction of AI into the workflow.

The article is structured like this: The human author used ChatGPT and fed it prompts like, "Give me a thoughtful perspective of a resident or fellow on their role in radiology." ChatGPT created some text that, honestly, is about as good as a resident would do. There were some other cute examples about how ChatGPT isn't a replacement for a physician.

However, the most interesting part of the article is still the human written insights. The author brings up ethical issues of accountability of the content that is created and brings up an interesting thought about letters of recommendations written by ChatGPT. Although, my professor in undergrad made me write it and he just signed his name. What did that professor teach you ask? Modern ethics (no joke)!

Human generated ideas for ChatGPT intervention

The author created a list of places where this AI might transform healthcare. Here are a few I liked:

• Patient Care

  • language translation

  • radiology report creation

  • patient education

• Abstract generation for medical publishing

• Medical billing/coding

The big takeaways

The human author had some clever ideas of where programs like ChatGPT could save physicians time. With the physician shortage only getting worse, having humans focusing time on what we are uniquely good at is ultimately going to benefit the patient.

Now some Rad Memes for making it this far!

That’s all for today!

Thanks for reading and I'll see you next week for more With and Without AI.

Mitch

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