KevinMD January 12, 2026
I have spent my career practicing medicine in the real world: caring for patients, managing uncertainty, and making decisions where the stakes are personal and immediate. In recent years, I have also spent considerable time designing and deploying medical software that uses artificial intelligence in live clinical environments. Together, these experiences have reshaped how I think about the future of our profession.
That combination of experiences has led me to a firm conclusion: Artificial intelligence will not replace doctors, but it will redefine us.
The conversation around AI in medicine is often framed in extremes. Either AI is portrayed as an existential threat to the profession, or it is hailed as a technological savior that will finally fix everything medicine...
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