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Doctors Say AI Is Introducing Slop Into Patient Care | Early testing demonstrates results that could be disastrous for patients.


Early testing demonstrates results that could be disastrous for patients.

AI presents a potential opportunity to make doctors more efficient by doing a lot of administrative busywork for them and by doing so, giving them time to see more patients and therefore drive down the ultimate cost of care. And it is true, the Post story interviewed a physician at Stanford who said two-thirds of doctors there with access to a platform record and transcribe patient meetings with AI so they can look them in the eyes during the visit and not be looking down, taking notes. “I do think this is one of those promising technologies, but it’s just not there yet,” said Adam Rodman, an internal medicine doctor and AI researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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