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Karen Ogle's avatar

I have long thought that primary care is the most intellectually demanding field in medicine, and it requires the biggest skill set, especially in the psychosocial realm.

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Michael A Bogdasarian's avatar

From your perspective, where does "Ethics" fit in? Is everything we do in Medicine about a measurable outcome?

This article obviously cannot lean into all the intricacies of medical practice and there is little doubt AI will be implemented in some form, but consider what we are seeing now: the cut and paste approach which at best preserves data, but too often perpetrates errors. Will AI be able to sort those issues out, especially in "translating" what a physician or practitioner says or does into verbiage? I can see real advantages, especially given some of the deplorable writing skills physicians display, but will AI actually transform something into "what it is not"? I do not believe you even wished to drill down to this kind of detail, dealing as you are at 50,000 feet, but as you also know, what happens on the ground is what matters to the people involved.

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