I am sure AI is changing the way we practice medicine, but when it comes to assessing a heart surgeon’s skills and making a real life recommendation of their ability to do a love one’s operation, it has a very long way to go…
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@georgetolisjr Not an AI expert. But I bet an AI with a sufficient dataset (including angiograms, echo, labs and history) could handily beat the STS score for risk prediction. And an AI looking at a surgeon’s record normalized to the new score would be able to make a reasonable recommendation
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@georgetolisjr I strongly agree that AI is indeed reshaping medicine, but there are still many key factors that cannot be quantified when evaluating doctors' clinical judgment and surgical skills.
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@georgetolisjr Fully agree. In my experience, real surgical competence comes from peer judgment and proven outcomes—not algorithms. Lives are at stake; we can't delegate that trust to AI yet.
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