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I’m a pediatrician. AI chatbots are grooming my patients
3+ week, 4+ day ago (882+ words) Hartman is a pediatrician, a father, and the director of pediatrics at Yehowa Medical Services in Los Angeles. “Can we talk … in private?” The man was nervous, hands wringing like a little boy in trouble, though he was perhaps a…...
The gifts from pharma companies that keep on giving
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (218+ words) habits. But to what extent have interactions between doctors and pharmaceutical representatives changed behaviors...
AMA CEO: AI won’t replace doctors — it will work alongside them
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (1001+ words) Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Butler-Baker have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical Association CEO John Whyte. Now, they are taking their discussion to STAT’s First Opinion. Read Whyte’s essay below and read Emanuel and…...
I’m a retired doctor. Volunteering at a community clinic gave me an entirely new medical education
2+ week, 6+ day ago (132+ words) very limited. Both community clinics and retired doctors are underutilized resources. By Ali Ahmed, Jeff...
Medicine stopped shaking hands. We should start again
2+ week, 5+ day ago (479+ words) Khawaja is an emergency medicine resident physician at Northwestern University. During a recent shift in the emergency department, I helped care for a woman facing a suspected oncologic emergency. She had come to the hospital expecting a routine evaluation, but…...
The pediatricians who take in vaccine-skeptical parents others won't
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1371+ words) In his reporting on the fallout from federal messaging on vaccines, Boodman interviewed nine pediatricians in six states and spent a day shadowing Aaron Bornstein during a meet-and-greet with a vaccine-hesitant parent. LAKEVILLE, Mass. — She didn’t have any trouble with…...
What STAT readers think about M.D. vs. D.O., AI in medicine, surrogacy, and more
1+ week, 1+ day ago (227+ words) First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT…...
When it comes to women’s health, money talks
2+ week, 4+ day ago (108+ words) STAT When it comes to women’s health, money talks Market forces are driving the case to fund research and improve treatment Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s…...
AI has created a shadow medical system
3+ week, 4+ day ago (173+ words) reasoning tasks. The implication is hard to miss. Doctors are slow, expensive, and human. AI is faster,...potentially better. Headlines about AI replacing doctors have already helped fuel a parallel, industry-driven...
Autonomous AI will beat AI-assisted physicians at some medical tasks by 2030
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (422+ words) main arguments. Second, Whyte and colleagues argue doctors will still be needed for the “art of medicine”:...communicating difficult decisions. As a result, they say, doctors will still need to be “on-the-loop.” Third, Whyte...attributable not to poor capability but…...