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Can independent medical judgment survive AI in medicine?

Every few weeks, another headline asks whether artificial intelligence is about to replace physicians. I doubt it. Patients don't want to hand the most important conversations of their lives to a computer. Doctors didn't spend years training to become little…

Every few weeks, another headline asks whether artificial intelligence is about to replace physicians. I doubt it. Patients don’t want to hand the most important conversations of their lives to a computer. Doctors didn’t spend years training to become little more than supervisors of software. Medicine has always been, and should remain, a profoundly human profession.

But I do think we’re asking the wrong question. The real question isn’t whether AI …

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Can independent medical judgment survive AI in medicine?