Can AI Help You Be Healthier?
Burt Rosen, 59, is a mountaineer and innovative marketing guy who, as he puts it, “happens to have two cancers.” Each cancer is its own complex case—one is in the kidney, the other is a metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors—and together, they require the work of a whole network of specialists. As you can imagine, his patient portals are something, so much so that he recently asked ChatGPT, “if I upload CT scan results, can you translate it into English so I understand it?” In seconds the doctorspeak came back with bold subtitles, simpler wording, and a nice summary. “AI is my helper now,” Rosen says.
While many people haven’t touched artificial intelligence yet, it’s already widely used in health care. Doctors are using AI to help diagnose and document, and patients like Rosen are leveraging its powers. In fact, one in six Americans already use AI monthly for health info and advice, according to a poll by KFF, a healthy policy research center. But is all of this really a good idea?
Excerpted from Men’s Health
