The patient was a 39-year-old woman who had come to the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
On a recent steamy Friday, Dr. Megan Landon, a medical resident, posed this real case to a room full of medical students and residents.
They were gathered to learn a skill that can be devilishly tricky to teach — how to think like a doctor.
“Doctors are terrible at teaching other doctors how we think,” said Dr. Adam Rodman, an internist, a medical historian and an organizer of the event at Beth Israel Deaconess.
But this time, they could call on an expert for help in reaching a diagnosis — GPT-4, the latest version of a chatbot released by the company OpenAI.
Persons:
Megan Landon, ”, Adam Rodman, Beth Israel Deaconess
Organizations:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Beth
Locations:
Boston