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Halee Fischer-Wright, MD has a unique perspective on the art, science, and business of medicine. As a former practicing pediatrician that ran her own practice, she was on the frontlines of healthcare as the art of medicine gave way to the science, as well as the business. "As we get into 2017, its science with a big S and art is in the background," says Dr. Fischer-Wright, in the latest edition of the 

Later, she moved into her current position as the President of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), where she deals with and defends the business side of medicine. "We vilify business, [we say] medicine would be so much better if we set aside the business of it. No, actually business has driven tremendous outcomes," she says.

Fischer-Wright writes extensively about all three elements of medicine - art, science, and business - in her new book, 

and how they are all needed for the healthcare system to work. She writes about the humanity of medicine, the first element, has become devalued thanks to the other two elements. "Everyone is examining how they can deliver better value - meaning higher quality, lower cost - [and] that's where the business dominance has devalued the relationship that's at the heart of medicine," she says on the podcast.

The book is full of anecdotes of Wright's career in medicine, the patients she saw, her story of nearly going bankrupt when her physician husband was diagnosed with cancer, and how a scene from the show 

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 podcast, we spoke with Rasu Shrestha, MD, the chief innovation officer at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). UPMC recently announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft, whereby the two entities will look to use artificial intelligence to cure physician burnout.

In an era of medicine where technology seems to be the cause of burnout, the notion that it could cure burnout is a likely an odd thing for physicians to hear. "Technology, in large part, tends to still be an impediment," Shrestha says. "As a clinician by training, I can tell you, we often see technology as a hurdle. It helps in the things we're trying to do, but we have to tolerate it."

However, Shrestha sees potential for much more. Using artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities, he says, technology can enable better care. "That's what this partnership with Microsoft is really about…leveraging technology, doing it in such way that technology, as much as possible, becomes invisible," he says.

Later on in the podcast, Shrestha addresses the skeptics and those concerned that artificial intelligence and other technologies are potentially going to replace physicians. "What I'd say is it's less of surfing the hype wave and looking at a doomsday scenario of man vs. machine…it's more of man working with machine, leveraging machine, leveraging machine-learning capabilities to help us be better at what we're doing," says Shrestha. "What's going to happen is these machines are going to come in and help us be better clinicians."

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. "It's not just technology for the sake of technology, which I think has gotten us where we are today. We've embraced technology, but we've been fearful of letting go of the culture of analog."

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