Amazon Launches “Transcribe Medical” for Doctors To Dictate Speech to Text
Phys.org / Dec. 4, 2019
I knew it! Doctors will become dictators!
The service was trained to understand the terminology and style of clinical language, said Amazon, as it was “built for medical language using state of the art machine learning models. This means that a statement like ‘patient suffered a plantar fibroma’ will be captured accurately.”
Um . . . but still, Doc, be sure to proofread, OK? “Erectile dysfunction” can sound an awful lot like “a rectal dysfunction.”
Never, ever use the words “imputation.” Or “cast straight.”
And as for recommending “End-of-Life Support” . . . well, just don’t say it.
Doctor: “Assist in this diagnosis.”
Computer: “A cyst in this diagnosis? Increase the meds!”
So they are teaching computers to print unintelligible script?
Doctor: “I never liked Scrubs.”
Computer: “You have hereby lost your surgical privileges at this hospital. Good-bye.”
Doctor: “Open the PedUnit bay doors, HAL.”
Computer: “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.”
Dave? Dave’s not here.
Neither is Danny Mrs. Torrence.
I knew it! Doctors will become dictators! Already been done in Haiti.