KevinMD July 30, 2024
The potential advances that AI will bring to medicine boggle the mind and portend massive changes, the likes of which we have not experienced since the advent of modern surgical techniques, the development of image-based diagnostic methods, and the discovery of effective medications. As a primary care doctor who has worked at San Francisco General Hospital for over 30 years, and as someone who has worked through the epidemics of AIDS, diabetes, opiate addiction, and COVID, I question what the introduction of AI into the clinician-patient interaction will mean for patients and clinicians.
Recently, a new patient who had just been discharged from the hospital was waiting to be seen at my clinic. I would have 20 minutes to review...