Whistleblower Who Built Cognative AI Assisted Life Saving Medical Assessment Triage System to Protect, Prevent and Stop Epedemics, and Pandemics during the Post-Antibiotic Era
The episode discusses the failures of rigid healthcare protocols and the importance of clinical intuition in patient care.
When you are not feeling well, you go to consult a doctor. You know the basic social contract of healthcare is to consult a doctor, but instead greeted by a receptionist or a clinical assistant who barely even looks up from their computer and they just ask you to rattle off your symptoms while they click through this pre-printed, generic flow chart on their screen, following a rigid checklist based entirely on a statistical algorithm, without anyone ever laying a physical hand on you. They print out a prescription for antibiotics, hand it across the desk, and dismiss you—all in maybe five minutes. You walk out in the parking lot trusting them because, well, they represent the medical system. You assume they know what they’re doing; you assume the system is built to protect you. But considering just chilling reality, what if your actual underlying illness didn’t fit neatly into the top 70% of statistical probabilities that their software was programmed to recognise? This is exactly what happens when you wake up three days later in an intensive care unit with life-threatening complications, all because a rigid administrative protocol completely bypassed an actual clinical…
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Host: Kadiyali Srivatsa
Topics covered
healthcare
medical assessment
cognitive AI
epidemics
pandemics
patient care
Keywords
healthcare system
diagnostic intuition
antibiotics
medical protocols
patient safety
cognitive AI
epidemics
pandemics
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