About this episode
Sam Ashoo, MD interviews Jack Teitel about the role of AI in medicine and its implications for healthcare.
In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD interviews Jack Teitel on the topic of AI in medicine. Introduction & Welcome — 0:17 Jack's Background in Healthcare AI — 0:58 Brief History of AI — 3:57 The "Perfect Storm" That Created Modern AI — 5:48 From General to Specialized: Fine-Tuning AI for Medicine — 7:04 LLM Confidence & the Sycophancy Problem — 13:01 The Benchmark Problem — 14:25 Building Your Own Personal AI Benchmark — 17:44 Can You "Turn Off" AI Sycophancy? — 20:00 RAG Systems & How Specialty AI Tools Work — 22:09 Choosing the Right AI Tool for Clinical Use — 26:18 Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail in Deployment— 28:10 How to Ask AI Questions Well (Prompt Quality) — 31:25 Knowledge Base Currency & Sam's Drug Withdrawal Test — 35:06 Closing & Contact Info — 37:12 For more about Jack Teitel - Title-AI.com Emergency Medicine Residents, get your free subscription by writing resident@ebmedicine.net
People in this episode
Host: Sam Ashoo, MD
Guest: Jack Teitel
Topics covered
- AI in medicine
- healthcare technology
- clinical AI tools
- AI deployment challenges
- prompt engineering
- medical benchmarks
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- healthcare AI
- AI deployment
- clinical use of AI
- prompt quality
- AI benchmarks
- medical technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Title-AI.com, EB Medicine, Emergency Medicine Residents
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