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Artificial intelligence is beginning to change the role of doctors, with chatbots and algorithms performing tasks previously done by physicians. While AI offers potential benefits like improved efficiency, experts also raise concerns about bias and the need for human connection in patient care.
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- Artificial intelligence is beginning to change the role of doctors, with chatbots and algorithms performing tasks previously done by physicians. While AI offers potential benefits like improved efficiency, experts also raise concerns about bias and the need for human connection in patient care.
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Doctors also know it is so good at diagnosing and so good at reading scans and images \u2014 better than many doctors, in fact \u2014 and so good at answering patient questions in portals and writing appeals to insurance companies when a medication or procedure is denied.So what is a doctor for?A.I. programs are becoming \u201cexistentially threatening,\u201d for doctors, Dr. Chen said. \u201cThey threaten your identity and your purpose.\u201dDr. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale and adviser to OpenEvidence, an A.I. program for doctors, agrees.\u201cA.I.\u2019s reasoning and ability to make diagnoses is already outpacing what physicians can do,\u201d said Dr. Krumholz, who is also a co-founder of two start-ups using A.I. to interpret medical scans and digital data.Many doctors who have thought deeply about the role of A.I. in medicine have also worked with A.I. companies. Dr. Chen is one who has not, but he said that he and many of his colleagues were being forced to ask \u201cWhen is it time to just get out of the way and let a computer take over?\u201dDr. Chatbot isn\u2019t quite ready to see you now, researchers say. But A.I. is starting to change what some doctors do, and which patients they see.A.I., said Dr. Robert Califf, a cardiologist at Duke and former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, is taking over what he called \u201csome of the scutwork\u201d that doctors have to do now, like making notes about patient visits. But even with the sum of medical knowledge in its servers, it may not be enough to let the bots take over care for patients. (Dr. Califf worked for Alphabet for six years and is advising a start-up that uses A.I. to prescribe medications.)\u201cThere is an overwhelming amount of information and how to think critically about that information is complicated,\u201d Dr. Califf said.Dr. Lee Schwamm, a neurologist and associate dean for digital strategy and transformation at Yale School of Medicine, gives an example.The patient says, \u201cYesterday I woke up dizzy. My arm was dead, and I had trouble speaking.\u201dWhat does \u201cdizzy\u201d actually mean? It could mean the patient is lightheaded and about to faint. Or it could mean that the room is spinning.A \u201cdead\u201d arm might be numb rather than weak. Someone with an arm that is partially paralyzed may say it feels numb. But a patient might feel a pin if Dr. Schwamm pricks their arm.Is the patient having a stroke? Is this a medical emergency?Dr. Schwamm has years of training that helps him figure out who is sick and who isn\u2019t, he says, and who to not be worried about and who should be admitted to the hospital.He has learned to read subtle signs and synthesize information that is difficult to make explicit and almost never written down.And, Dr. Schwamm said, he \u201ccan use reasoning in the face of limited or imperfect information to select the most likely diagnoses for further evaluation, balancing thoroughness with pragmatism.\u201dThat\u2019s not a chatbot\u2019s forte.\u201cIt is just really good at matching patterns and making predictions,\u201d Dr. Schwamm said. \u201cBut it can only do this based on the data that it is given about the patient. It has no way to extract that information itself.\u201dAnd patients with serious diseases need a human connection, he added.\u201cIn the end you want to look someone in the eye,\u201d he said, and explain that the patient has 10 years to live, or just six months.But he\u2019s not dismissing chatbots, which he concedes can expand doctors\u2019 reach, and alter the structure of our medical system.ImageCredit...Fabio ConsoliAlready, Dr. Schwamm said, A.I. can outperform doctors in some situations, like reading an electrocardiogram. It can find heart conditions by detecting patterns cardiologists can\u2019t see, and that would ordinarily require an expensive echocardiogram.That means that a job for cardiologists can now be done by general practitioners.It can also help reduce the caseload of some medical specialists so patients who need their expertise will not have to wait weeks or months to get an appointment.That\u2019s already happening in the practice of Dr. John Erik Pandolfino, a specialist in gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.Most patients who were worried about GERD symptoms had to wait weeks to get an appointment with him. He said that \u201ca good proportion of the time\u201d the patients had less serious cases that didn\u2019t require his care.Dr. Pandolfino created an A.I. solution he calls GERDBot. It triages patients, steering those who don\u2019t really need to see him to other providers. The goal is to expedite care for those with more worrisome symptoms.Patients start by answering the bot\u2019s questions. Those whose symptoms indicate a serious problem are seen right away. The others get a call within a week from a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant who allays their fears and gives them medicines, if necessary, that can help.Dr. Pandolfino, who licensed a different A.I. model he made to the medical device company Medtronic, sees fewer patients, but they are the ones who need his expertise.\u201cMost people are appreciative that they get started with their care and get information right away, and if they fail treatment, or have warning signs, they get triaged to the doctor,\u201d he said.He concedes that a small minority feel that they are being shunted to second-rate care. But the old way \u2014 with as much as a six-month wait for an appointment \u2014 was so much worse for people who wanted help and reassurance.The next step is to offload even patients with more severe GERD symptoms.Dr. Pandolfino has developed an A.I. algorithm that he calls Eso-Instein (\u201cEso\u201d is for esophagus) that will help a less specialized gastroenterologist decide the most likely diagnosis from a patient\u2019s symptoms, endoscopy scans and physiologic testing. Then it tells that doctor how to treat the patient and the prognosis.\u201cEventually, when the algorithm is working better than a human, I will have to find something different to do,\u201d Dr. Pandolfino said.A.I., he says, \u201cwill make people like me less and less valuable.\u201dJust as Dr. Pandolfino\u2019s A.I. algorithm may let specialists hand over many of their patients to generalists, there\u2019s also a hope that the same sort of strategy might make generalists more available by handing off some of their jobs to nurse practitioners.There\u2019s a serious lack of primary care doctors, not just in rural areas but even in major cities with multiple hospitals and large medical schools.Dr. Isaac Kohane, chairman of the department of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, said that when a new faculty member asked him to recommend a primary care doctor in Boston, he was unable to find practices that were taking on new patients.\u201cAccess is absolutely a problem,\u201d said Dr. Daniel Morgan, professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. \u201cWe\u2019d like to see patients more expeditiously. I don\u2019t know a single physician who loves to say, \u2018Oh yeah. It\u2019s six months to see me.\u2019\u201dBut A.I. can help patients, said Dr. Adam Rodman, an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It can triage patients and let nurse practitioners do more of a primary care doctor\u2019s work, freeing the doctor to see more patients with complex needs. And when it comes to a choice between no doctor who is taking new patients or a doctor who refers patients to a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, patients are likely to accept these other medical professionals.He and other researchers acknowledge, though, that there are risks that chatbots can recreate the biases medical institutions already have. In one example, a study found they might pay less attention to a woman or to a person who made mistakes in spelling or grammar.Such concerns lead some experts to warn against treating A.I. as panaceas for the medical system.\u201cThe real concern isn\u2019t A.I. itself,\u201d said Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, the clinical research director of M.I.T.\u2019s laboratory of computational physiology. \u201cIt\u2019s that A.I. is being deployed to optimize a profoundly broken system rather than to reimagine it.\u201d\u201cToday\u2019s patients,\u201d Dr. Celi said, \u201cmay not realize how badly the current system is failing them.\u201dHis colleague, Marzyeh Ghassemi of the Healthy ML group at M.I.T., has similar concerns. A.I. has \u201cenormous potential,\u201d she said, but it seems to be mostly used now to hike profits for medical systems by \u201cincreasing billing, replacing frontline care staff for disadvantaged patients or advertising medication.\u201dThe internist, Dr. Rodman, formerly a visiting researcher at Google, said medical systems and their patients needed to be aware of these problems.\u201cBut,\u201d he added, \u201cit is not a reason not to go ahead with the technology.\u201d He is hopeful that with A.I., researchers can document and then reduce the bias. With humans, who have the same biases, \u201cit is really hard to mitigate,\u201d Dr. Rodman said.And, Dr. Rodman said, at least for some tasks, A.I. will be better than doctors. It will be better at paying attention to screening guidelines and counseling patients about their sleep and eating habits, for example.Those are the tedious parts of doctoring, said Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder, an internal medicine specialist at Northwestern.\u201cThere are a lot of tasks we do in primary care that feel like check the box,\u201d Dr. Linder said. And, he said, that\u2019s not what drew him to medicine.Dr. Linder said he worried that some doctors would rely too much on A.I.\u201cThe last thing you want is a stupid A.I.-dependent doctor,\u201d he said, in which, \u201cI turn my brain off and A.I. tells me what to do all the time.\u201dThe problem, though, is that while A.I. might not be ideal, neither is today\u2019s medical system.And it is becoming increasingly clear that the role of a doctor is going to undergo a transformation.\u201cMedicine is going to change,\u201d Dr. Pandolfino said. \u201cYou can\u2019t fight it.\u201dBut physicians still have important roles to play.\u201cInternal medicine is a people-facing specialty,\u201d Dr. Linder said. \u201cYou get to know patients over time. You know their values. You know their families.\u201dDr. Joshua Steinberg, a primary care physician at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Binghamton, N.Y., agreed.\u201cEven if an A.I. has read all the medical literature, I will still be the expert on my patients,\u201d Dr. Steinberg said.\u201cI think our doctoring role may look a little different, but I will still be sitting on a little rolling stool, talking to the patient,\u201d he said.Gina Kolata reports on diseases and treatments, how treatments are discovered and tested, and how they affect people.A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 10, 2026, Section D, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Threat of Dr. A.I.. 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When itβs time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about whether to insert a feeding tube, Dr. Jonathan Chen, an internist at Stanford, practices first with a chatbot. He asks the bot to be a doctor while he plays the role of the patient. Then he reverses the roles.He feels uncomfortable doing it. The bot is so good at finding ways to talk to patients. Doctors also know it is so good at diagnosing and so good at reading scans and images β better than many doctors, in fact β and so good at answering patient questions in portals and writing appeals to insurance companies when a medication or procedure is denied.So what is a doctor for?A.I. programs are becoming βexistentially threatening,β for doctors, Dr. Chen said. βThey threaten your identity and your purpose.βDr. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale and adviser to OpenEvidence, an A.I. program for doctors, agrees.βA.I.βs reasoning and ability to make diagnoses is already outpacing what physicians can do,β said Dr...
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Health , Technology π a1164514-55df-4b3e-b59b-6892daead49aSimplified: Dr Jonathan Chen practices with a chatbot when it is time to have a difficult conversation with a dying patient about inserting a feeding tube
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π€ Andrew Bean π News Article π·οΈ Health , Technology π a1164496-cb0c-4fa4-a6bb-06bd425df28aSimplified: Chatbots should ask follow up questions similarly to how doctors gather information
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164495-4e04-4b82-9eeb-1470677d759fSimplified: Models have passed medical licensing exams and outperformed doctors on challenging diagnostic problems
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164514-bcd9-490e-ac6a-07304cd8f3dcSimplified: Chatbots are good at answering patient questions in portals writing appeals to insurance companies when a medication or procedure is denied
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π€ Dr. Jonathan Chen π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164514-daee-4992-90e2-74d406cafe18Simplified: A.I. programs are becoming existentially threatening for doctors
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π€ Dr. Robert Califf π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164515-36d7-4fe2-98fe-65294a76a461Simplified: A.I. is taking over some of the scutwork that doctors have to do now like making notes about patient visits
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164494-7cd2-4c25-b4a8-686a41d05438Simplified: A new study provided a sobering look at whether A.I. chatbots are good at providing medical advice
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The patient says, βYesterday I woke up dizzy. My arm was dead, and I had trouble speaking.β1.000Simplified: Patient says yesterday I woke up dizzy my arm was dead and I had trouble speaking
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Simplified: A dead arm might be numb rather than weak
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Simplified: A patient might feel a pin if Dr Schwamm pricks their arm
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π€ Dr. Schwamm π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164516-2406-4035-9709-13c81f263109Simplified: Chatbots are just really good at matching patterns and making predictions
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Simplified: Patients with serious diseases need a human connection
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π€ Dr. Schwamm π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164516-9509-431d-b013-9926c2d8d26cSimplified: A.I. can outperform doctors in some situations like reading an electrocardiogram
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Detecting patterns cardiologists canβt see would ordinarily require an expensive echocardiogram.0.900Simplified: Detecting patterns cardiologists canβt see would ordinarily require an expensive echocardiogram
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Simplified: Most patients who were worried about GERD symptoms had to wait weeks to get an appointment with Dr Pandolfino
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GERDBot triages patients, steering those who donβt really need to see him to other providers.1.000π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164517-614f-4308-bfb6-b31061314510Simplified: GERDBot triages patients steering those who donβt really need to see him to other providers
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Simplified: The goal is to expedite care for those with more worrisome symptoms
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Simplified: The others get a call within a week from a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant who allays their fears and gives them medicines if necessary th...
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Simplified: A small minority feel that they are being shunted to second-rate care
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Simplified: The old way with as much as a six-month wait for an appointment was so much worse for people who wanted help and reassurance
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π€ Dr. Pandolfino π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164518-4111-4162-a87b-c0c5c42cec4eSimplified: Dr Pandolfino has developed Eso-Instein algorithm
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π€ Dr. Pandolfino π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Career π a1164518-86a7-4f96-b4ba-e56fe66b6b14Simplified: A.I. will make people like Dr Pandolfino less valuable
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164518-a126-4cd9-95bf-215e5ba0bd23Simplified: A.I. may let specialists hand over patients to generalists
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Simplified: There is serious lack of primary care doctors
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Simplified: Access is a problem
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Simplified: Patients are likely to accept other medical professionals when choosing between no doctor or doctor referring patients
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164519-47c6-4084-a5d9-a2cd37603059Simplified: Chatbots can recreate biases medical institutions already have
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164519-65dc-44e5-8d59-b35db8296b6dSimplified: Study found chatbots might pay less attention to woman or person who made mistakes in spelling or grammar
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π€ Dr. Leo Anthony Celi π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a1164519-84a0-43dc-9e8f-3ec3e0a47d19Simplified: A.I. is being deployed to optimize broken system rather than reimagine it
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π€ Dr. Leo Anthony Celi π News Article π·οΈ Health π a1164519-afc1-4eaf-ad1b-854d86e71365Simplified: Todayβs patients may not realize how badly current system is failing them
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π€ Marzyeh Ghassemi π News Article π·οΈ Technology π a1164519-ccac-46f9-a8e2-4f44daacaa75Simplified: A.I. has enormous potential
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π€ Marzyeh Ghassemi π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health , Finance π a1164519-e870-40a9-ac64-76a27a212fc8Simplified: A.I. seems to be mostly used to hike profits for medical systems by increasing billing replacing frontline care staff for disadvantaged patients or ad...
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Simplified: Medical systems and patients needed to be aware of these problems
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π€ Dr. Adam Rodman π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Health π a116451a-2789-4f2c-a884-4cf5717249c1Simplified: With A.I. researchers can document then reduce bias
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π€ Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder π News Article π·οΈ Health π a116451a-879d-4dbd-a3c4-cfc1dcd7c4a3Simplified: You get to know patients over time
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You know their values.1.000π€ Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder π News Article π·οΈ Health π a116451a-a644-4694-802d-c1fc8fb4da32Simplified: You know their values
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Even if an A.I. has read all the medical literature, I will still be the expert on my patients.1.000π€ Dr. Joshua Steinberg π News Article π·οΈ Health π a116451a-d7fe-41dc-91e0-ce8c245b0699Simplified: Even if A.I. has read all medical literature I will still be expert on my patients
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Simplified: Medicine is going to change