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The Second One in the Room: Medicine let AI into the room and looked away.

by Yoram Friedman
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798198361614
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 176
  • Original Price: GBP 12.65
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 245 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

A woman in Iowa has her eyes screened for diabetic blindness by a camera no doctor reviews. A teenager confides in a chatbot that has no duty to call for help. A surgeon conducts an operating room in which most of the instruments are guided by models she did not build and cannot audit. In each room there is a second one: an artificial system doing the work the credentialed physician used to do.

Yoram Friedman, a physician who trained in those rooms and then built the platforms now displacing it, argues that medicine's professional wall was doing two jobs, not one. It controlled who got in. It also, quietly, governed the care that happened inside. AI has dissolved the wall, and almost no one has noticed that the second job went with it. The patient is still in the room. The thing that used to watch over her is gone.

Drawing on cases from the clinic, the operating theater, and the consumer app, The Second One in the Room is a field report from that dissolution, and a clear-eyed account of the governance architecture medicine will have to build before the patient is left alone with a system that owes her nothing.

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