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Ben Chin-Yee

@bc-y.bsky.social
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Philosophy of science & medicine. Hematologist & Assistant Professor at Western University, Canada. benchinyee.com

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AMS Healthcare @amshealthcare.ca · 03/02/2026
AI scribes can help free up cognitive load for clinicians. But Dr. @bc-y.bsky.social, a 2020 AMS Healthcare Fellow, shares what we may be losing as we phase out dictating consult notes in an opinion piece for JAMA’s AI in Medicine. Read it here:
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The Death of the Consult Note
In this narrative medicine essay, a hematologist weighs the benefits and losses of surrendering the consult note to artificial intelligence.
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JAMA Network Open @jamanetworkopen.com · 29/07/2025
Labeling clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance (CCUS) as #cancer raised perceived seriousness and treatment benefit, while linguistic framing did not. ja.ma/3GZs2KG
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 15/07/2025
“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
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Beyond Argument: The Creative Craft of Philosophy Writing (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I want to talk about the part about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument part: the bit where you work on expressing your idea clearly, delicately, even personally. I want to t...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The amazing physician-philosopher Ben Chin-Yee and a recent Cambridge HPS graduate on cancer diagnosis as an Austinian speech act with illocutionary consequences that are not what they should be. A really striking essay! #philsci #philsky #MedHum #bioethics
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The word ‘cancer’ leads to overtreatment and fear. Should we drop it? | Aeon Essays
Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all?
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 15/07/2025
‘We treat not because it helps – but because the alternative feels like giving up’ Is the word ‘cancer’ doing more harm than good? Physicians routinely withheld the diagnosis, fearing that merely uttering it would extinguish all hope and hasten death. What is the way to use this word?
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The word ‘cancer’ leads to overtreatment and fear. Should we drop it? | Aeon Essays
Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all?
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Adam Hunt 🇨🇦 @gander22h.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence tools can sometimes answer patient questions accurately, but Canadian medical researchers caution that the information needs to be carefully checked before acting on what you see." www.cbc.ca/news/health/... #CBC #news #medicine 1/2
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Why doctors want you to talk to them about ChatGPT medical queries | CBC News
ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence tools can sometimes answer patient questions accurately, but Canadian medical researchers caution that the information needs to be carefully checked before ...
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Healthcare in Europe @healthcare-europe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#LLM generated recaps of scientific publications tend to exaggerate the findings, according to a new study from Uwe Peters (🇳🇱 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social ) and @bc-y.bsky.social (🇨🇦 @westernu.bsky.social / 🇬🇧 @cambridgeuni.bsky.social ). Prompting for more accuracy even makes things worse.
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Generative AI routinely blows up science findings
When summarizing scientific studies, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and DeepSeek produce inaccurate conclusions in up to 73% of cases.
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VJHemOnc @vjhemonc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What are the adverse events associated with proximal and terminal complement inhibition in patients with PNH?🩸 Watch our interview from #IPIG2025 with ‪Benjamin Chin-Yee (@bc-y.bsky.social‬) to find out: 👉 buff.ly/DCfWF6o 👈 #RareDisease #PNH #Hematology #BloodSky #HemeSky #MedSky
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 30/04/2025
Medicine’s overgeneralization problem — and how AI might make things worse
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Medicine’s overgeneralization problem — and how AI might make things worse
In medical research, precision matters. But both humans and machines tend to overgeneralize the results of health studies, saying more than what the data allows.
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Lucie Laplane @lucielaplane.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"Epistemic limitations of measurable residual disease in haematological malignancies". Free access until April 22: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kiL4_rV3G... If you like it, all the credit should go to @bc-y.bsky.social and @sujobert.bsky.social If you want more philo: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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