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Jul 30, 2024 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo |Mandy Erickson |Alan Toth |Alan TothPublished

Whether she establishes an army of community health workers or helps get a medical complex built -- both if she can do it -- Bongeka Zuma, MD, is determined to provide better care for people in her tiny rural hometown of Nkwezela, South Africa. "There is no world in which I don't help my people," said the recent graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine.

Mar 26, 2024 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Anna Marie Yanny |Alan Toth |Emily Moskal |Alan TothPublished

While artificial intelligence chatbots are getting better at mimicking humans, they aren't always developed with medicine in mind. That's why Stanford Medicine doctors and researchers are modifying existing chatbots to perform well in a frontier of AI-enhanced medicine: the doctor-patient interaction. These efforts to help physicians care for patients more efficiently, without compromising accuracy, could help guide how AI enters the doctor's office in the years to come.

Feb 12, 2024 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Margarita Gallardo |Hanae Armitage |Alan Toth |Alan TothPublished

In this We Are Stanford Med series, meet individuals who are shaping the future of medicine. They hail from all over the globe and come to Stanford Medicine carrying big ideas and dreams. Brian Smith thinks a lot about the powerful intention of words. As he navigates his second year of medical school at Stanford Medicine, he is continuously drawn to the impact that language and personal interaction wield in the realm of healing and patient care.

Aug 30, 2023 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Julia Scott |Emily Moskal |Alan Toth |Alan TothPublished

Longtime oncologist Lidia Schapira had always been struck by the wildly different ways her patients responded, both emotionally and psychologically, to their cancer diagnoses. She noticed something else too: The way people thought about their illness seemed to shape their experience -- including their physical response to pain and side effects.

Aug 7, 2023 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Hanae Armitage |Kimberlee D'ardenne |Alan Toth |Alan TothPublished

By now, you've probably turned to a large language model (think ChatGPT) to shoulder a linguistic burden. Maybe you tasked it with conjuring a heartfelt letter, or had it summarize a long transcript. A large language model, or LLM, is a form of artificial intelligence that can generate human-like text, and the technology has exploded in popularity over the past year.