Let Your Freak Flag Fly

 John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.If Mary Putnam Jacobi were alive today, she would probably embrace artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data analytics. Dr. Jacobi might best be described as the mother of modern scientific medicine — or at the very least one of its founding parents. In 1868, she was the first woman to enroll in the University of Paris School of Medicine. After graduating in 1871, this unconventional thinker arrived in the U.S., where she advocated for the inclusion of laboratory science, experimentation and statistics as the foundation cornerstone of modern medical practice. Equally important, Jacobi “became a powerful advocate for the equalcontribution of women to medicine. ” Pushing clinicians to buy into the notion that experimentation and statistics were needed for good quality patient care may seem unimpressive today. Still, it was almost heresy in an age when the received wisdom from one ’s medical school professor was all that was necessary to “demonstrate” that a treatment protocol was effective. Given her “color-outside-the-lines” approach, it’s not hard to imagine her becoming passionate about the role of AI in medicine — not as a panacea but as an indispensable adjunct to human reasoning and clinical trials.The evidence shows that machine learning, advanced...
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