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A problem plagues modern healthcare: machines are setting the standard of care, and human clinicians are struggling to keep up. Artificial intelligence will only make this worse. The technical mindset fragments patient care and draws us further from shalom even as pursue surrogate markers that are meant to restore health. How can we, as Christian clinicians, respond wisely and well to this problem? One response is found in the story of the God's people in the Bible, specifically in the story of Israel's adoption into the family of God.
Joshua Briscoe, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center
Joshua Briscoe, MD, is a hospice and palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center where he also serves on the Ethics Consultation Service. He's an assistant professor of medicine and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine and faculty associate with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine. He writes about issues at the intersection of medicine, technology, and moral formation in a monthly newsletter entitled "Notes from a Family Meeting."