Is anyone else both fascinated and horrified by the emergence of AI technology? Well, if that is you, I’m in the same boat. I think it’s interesting, but how it’s taking over the writing world really is terrible. It’s replacing a lot of jobs, which is never a good thing.
Can you imagine how it could affect the medical industry? In the book The Algorithm Will See You Now, JL Lycette explores the possibilities of how AI technology will impact medicine. I can’t wait to tell you my thoughts about this book!
But first, here’s a bit more about it:
The most dangerous lies are the ones that use the truth to sell themselves.
Medical treatment determined by artificial intelligence could do more than make Hope Kestrel’s career. It could revolutionize healthcare.
What the Seattle surgeon doesn’t know is the AI has a hidden fatal flaw, and the people covering it up will stop at nothing to dominate the world’s healthcare — and its profits. Soon, Hope is made the scapegoat for a patient’s death, and only Jacie Stone, a gifted intern with a knack for computer science, is willing to help search for the truth.
But her patient’s death is only the tip of the conspiracy’s iceberg. The Director, Marah Maddox, is plotting a use for the AI far outside the ethical bounds of her physician’s oath. A staggering plan capable of reducing human lives to their DNA code, redefining the concepts of sickness and health, and delivering the power of life and death decisions into the hands of those behind the AI.
Even if the algorithm accidentally discards some who are treatable in order to make that happen…
My Review
Wow! What a book. I was so pulled in right away about the complexities of this new version of the future and the medical industry. It’s really not that impossible either, with how I see businesses gravitating to this new technology as we have it now. Hope is an excellent character, and I rooted for her (and was frustrated by her sometimes) throughout the book. The author did such a great job at making a complex world (medicine) understandable. She helped us understand the dynamics and “office politics” of a hospital that often goes unseen by patients. Even if you are on the fence about reading medical thrillers, you don’t want to miss this!
Purchase a copy of The Algortihm Will See You Now on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop.org. You can also add this to your GoodReads reading list.
About the Author, JL Lycette
Jennifer / JL Lycette is a novelist, award-winning essayist, rural physician, wife, and mother. She has a degree in biochemistry from the University of San Francisco and attained her medical degree at the University of Washington. Mid-career, she discovered narrative medicine in her path back from physician burnout and has been writing ever since. Her essays can be found in Intima, NEJM, JAMA and other journals; at Doximity and Medscape; and her website https: //jenniferlycette.com. She is an alumna of the 2019 Pitch Wars Mentoring program. Her other published speculative fiction can be found in the anthology And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press). The Algorithm Will See You Now (Black Rose Writing Press) is her first novel.
Find her online:
Website: https://jenniferlycette.com
Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/Author.JL.Lycette
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22185205.J_L_Lycette
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JL_Lycette
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-lycette/
Mastodon: https://mindly.social/@JL_Lycette
Terrific review!
Thank you Nicole for this lovely review and for the WoW Women on Writing blog tour!