Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: A Journey through History, Present Innovations, and Future Possibilities.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool in healthcare significantly impacting practices from diagnostics to treatment delivery and patient management. This article examines the progress of AI in healthcare, starting from the field's inception in the 1960s to present-day innovative applications in areas such as precision medicine, robotic surgery, and drug development. In addition, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the acceleration of the use of AI in technologies such as telemedicine and chatbots to enhance accessibility and improve medical education is also explored.

The Need for Improved End-of-Life Care Medical Education: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Enhancement and Integration.

End-of-life (EOL) care is a unique area of medicine that emphasizes holistic patient-centered care. It requires clinicians to consider a patients' mental, emotional, spiritual, social and physical comforts and engage patients and their families in complex discussions and decisions. It is an area of medicine that requires sensitivity in communication in order to respond to a wide range of emotions from patients and their families.