How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System w/ Dr. Robert Pearl, Author, "ChatGPT, MD"

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Send us Fan Mail American employers now spend over $25,000 a year to cover a single family, and chronic disease is driving the system toward collapse. Yet medicine is still built around a doctor's office visit every three to four months. Dr. Robert Pearl, former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group, Stanford professor, and author of ChatGPT MD, joins host David E. Williams to make the case that generative AI is the only tool that can shift medicine from episodic to continuous care, and why without it, the chronic disease crisis will break American healthcare entirely. ️️ABOUT DR. ROBERT PEARL Robert Pearl, MD served as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) for 18 years and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, leading 10,000 physicians and 38,000 staff responsible for the care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts. He is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching healthcare strategy, technology, and leadership.

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