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Oct 15, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Charlotte Blease
While teachers worry about students cheating with ChatGPT, doctors might be playing their own bluff with AI. In the largest study of its kind, my team surveyed more than 1,000 GPs working in Britain, and 20 per cent admitted using this and similar tools to “assist with clinical tasks”. Twenty-nine per cent used AI to generate patient documentation after appointments, 28 per cent for diagnosis and 25 per cent to suggest treatment options.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
bmjopen.bmj.com | Charlotte Blease |Zhiyong Dong |Ray Jones |Anna Kharko
Electronic Health RecordsSurveys and QuestionnairesPatientsData availability statementData are available in a public, open access repository.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
jme.bmj.com | Charlotte Blease |Uppsala universitet
Ethics- MedicalInformation TechnologyEducationPolicyOnline record access (ORA) is expanding worldwide. Already patients in an estimated 30 countries can access at least some of their online records via secure portals and apps. Access can include list of medications, vaccinations, laboratory results and even the very narrative reports written by clinicians (the latter commonly referred to as ‘open notes’).
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
mentalhealth.bmj.com | Charlotte Blease |John Torous |Participatory eHealth |Uppsala universitet
ChatGPT and mental healthcare: balancing benefits with risks of harms The WHO estimates that worldwide one in eight people live with mental illness.1 Stigmatisation and human rights violations, combined with lack of resources, including shortfalls in mental health professionals, pose significant barriers to psychiatric care.2 Consequently, clinician time is one of the scarcest resources in healthcare, and psychiatrists report looking to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve...
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Blease
Former nurse Lucy Letby used stealthy methods to murder seven babies and attempt to kill six more. We may never know the full toll. Reviewing the case, medical-legal spokespeople argued that no one piece of evidence was the clincher contributing to her conviction. Instead, multiple smaller pieces of evidence pointed to the 33-year old’s guilt.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Charlotte Blease
The US has approved its very first pill for postpartum depression. This mental-health condition, which was once belittled as the ‘baby blues’, is both serious and widespread worldwide. It affects 17 per cent of otherwise healthy mothers, and the problem is growing. The symptoms are intense, including feelings of severe depression and anxiety, combined with emotional withdrawal from the newborn. As a result, babies can also be put at serious risk of harm and neglect.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Blease
Northern Ireland should be bolder in promoting itself George Bernard Shaw once said America and England are “two nations separated by a common language”. That may be so, but a more striking difference struck me whilst living on the East Coast of the US. I speak of the delicate matter of personal salesmanship. Selling oneself to others — especially in the workplace — is an American norm. If Europeans tend to lead with modesty, Americans go all in on marketing.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Charlotte Blease |Joanna Lee Williams
In my day, teens stuck Athena posters of pop idols on their bedroom walls. Nowadays, most young people are too busy basking in the blue light of tablets and phones to get the Blu Tack out. But if today’s young people are searching for someone new on YouTube to ‘share’, ‘like’ and ‘follow’, they could do worse than Sinéad O’Connor. The enfant terrible of 1990s pop, who passed away this week aged 56, was not herself prone to hagiography, mimicry or any kind of hero worship.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Blease
When I was a kid, I cut the hair off my twin sister’s Sindy doll. After the act, I explained one of our dolls needed to be sacrificed to create the “Ken” boyfriend figure. She clearly wasn’t sold on this. Since our Ken had boobs and a limited wardrobe (maybe I was ahead of my time), his debut was short-lived. This madeleine moment flooded back to me during a matinee viewing of Barbie. Set in the Mattel equivalent of Malibu, director Greta Gerwig’s dolls live in a feminist utopia.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Charlotte Blease |Tom Slater |Malcolm Clark
Human beings are being driven to distraction. From when we wake up until bedtime, we find ourselves liking things on social media, scrolling through the news and fastidiously messaging. I have witnessed adult family members deeply ensconced with online games, such as Mahjong or Gem Drop, while supposedly watching TV or eating dinner.
