Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Clinical Decision Making: A Surgeon's perspective

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles Binkley, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, the director of Bioethics for the health network’s Central Region, and also an associate professor of Surgery at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine on his recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, “From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm – Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery,” which contends that more data and an empirical framework involving algorithms would aid doctors, who must seek out more input than just their sole observation of the patient in deciding whether a surgical intervention is “worth it.”

1. Binkley CE, Reynolds JM, Shuman A. From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm — Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2022;387(14):1325-1328. doi:10.1056/NEJMms2207408