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Sunday, April 05, 2026

Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in the New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays.

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New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan ...

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-- Eric Topol (@erictopol.bsky.social) Feb 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Good luck suing a computer program for Malpractice when it misdiagnoses somebody.

#1 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-05 04:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I can't help but think that Medicine would be better served by replacing the corporate paper pushers with AI rather than practitioners.

#2 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-05 04:43 PM | Reply

"Replace radiologists with AI and double the price!"
-Venture Capitalists

"Great idea!"
-MAGA

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-04-05 07:28 PM | Reply

Is AI going to put that lead apron on your junk? No.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-05 08:41 PM | Reply

They should work with AI CEOs to figure out a way to fund affordable healthcare, and to efficiently remove administrative bureaucratic waste from healthcare

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-04-05 08:51 PM | Reply

#4

That's the radiology technician, the radiologist in many cases isn't even in the hospital but instead working in their on remote home office.

I built a cloud infrastructure for a company trying to become the Uber of radiology, with a centralized location that scans went into and were then farmed out to the radiologist with the best specialities that aligned with the incoming scan. Those Radiologists could sign in and out of the system at will, and all worked from home set ups.

#6 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-04-06 10:25 AM | Reply

This is the type of task AI is well suited to.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-06 10:38 AM | Reply

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