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AI in health care: Why artificial intelligence cannot replace human empathy

Physician

March 23, 2026

If you trust the titans of industry, and I do not, we are led to believe that, just around the proverbial corner, the equivalent of C-3PO will arrive to improve health care. How wonderful!

You might remember the fussy, shiny droid, the golden companion of R2-D2 in the Star Wars films. Fluent in over six million forms of communication, C-3PO bubbled with personality, …

Navigating the cybersecurity challenges of artificial intelligence in medicine

Francisco M. Torres, MD & Purab Patel

Tech

March 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence, or “AI,” is fast becoming indispensable to modern medical practice. Whether they are using complex prognostic algorithms to model possible disease outcomes or they are upgrading medical bookkeeping applications, physicians employ various forms of AI to aid in daily tasks. And while these tools can produce unprecedented benefits, the increased incorporation of AI in medical practice also brings with it a number of key cybersecurity challenges. Medical information, …

AI in clinical documentation: the hidden risk of automation bias

Gagandeep Rai

Tech

March 18, 2026

The schedule is already behind. It is always already behind. In a family medicine clinic on an ordinary Tuesday, I open a chart and watch an AI tool do what it was built to do: draft the note, compress the story, produce an assessment that reads clean, confident, complete. For a moment it feels like relief, the kind you learn not to trust. Then the woman across from me says, …

Can AI scribes give clinicians time to teach again?

Lynn McComas, DNP, ANP-C

Tech

March 18, 2026

If the computer is getting more of our attention than the patient, we have a problem. It is not a small annoyance. It is not just part of the job. It is pulling clinicians away from patients, draining attention from the exam room, and quietly chipping away at the quality of clinical education. We can debate workflow, efficiency, and EHR optimization all day long. But here is what I see …

Health care cyberattacks expose a critical national security failure

Kristen Cline, BSN, RN

Tech

March 18, 2026

Everything we know about keeping people alive under pressure we learned from war. Triage was invented on a Napoleonic battlefield. Tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, damage control resuscitation, the golden hour itself. Military surgeons figured out how to stop bleeding and move casualties while the ground was still shaking, and civilian medicine inherited every lesson. The emergency department and the battlefield have always been adjacent theaters, running the same protocols under different …

AI agents in health care: What they say when we aren’t listening

Alp Köksal

Tech

March 17, 2026

When artificial intelligence systems talk to us, we tend to focus on what they can do for patients, clinicians, and the health care system. But what happens when they start talking to each other about us?

Earlier this year, a new platform called Moltbook, essentially Reddit for AI agents, launched with hundreds of thousands of autonomous “moltbots” posting (on any topic), debating, and upvoting without any human participation. The platform has …

The hidden risks and rewards of AI scribes in medicine

Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA

Tech

March 16, 2026

For decades physicians have dreamed of a simple technological solution to one of modern medicine’s most corrosive burdens: documentation. The electronic health record promised efficiency but delivered something quite different: extra burden. Physicians now spend hours each evening completing notes, clicking boxes, and reconciling fields, what has become known as “pajama time.” The keyboard has often replaced eye contact. The screen has displaced the patient. Ambient AI scribes arrived with …

Autonomous AI agents could strip the soul from medicine [PODCAST]

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Podcast

March 15, 2026

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Internal medicine and functional medicine physician Shiv K. Goel discusses his article “Agentic AI in medicine: the danger of automating the doctor.” Shiv analyzes the new ARPA-H “ADVOCATE” program which aims to …

The hidden risks of AI-generated progress notes in psychotherapy

Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA

Tech

March 12, 2026

Imagine a patient who spends most of a therapy session talking about a single memory. He describes sitting in his car after visiting his mother in a nursing home, unable to start the engine. He sits there for nearly 20 minutes, staring at the steering wheel and wondering when the roles had reversed, when he had become the parent and she the child. Nothing dramatic happens in the session. No …

How AI in dentistry is changing your next checkup

Sowjanya Gunukula, DDS

Tech

March 12, 2026

You probably weren’t thinking about AI the last time you sat in the dental chair. You were wondering whether that shadow on the X-ray meant a cavity, and whether it would hurt. But AI was quite possibly already at work behind the scenes, and it’s about to play a much bigger role in your next visit. As a general dentist, I’ve watched the conversation about AI in medicine grow louder …

AI redefines the physician’s role by reducing cognitive overload [PODCAST]

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Podcast

March 9, 2026

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Family physician and health care entrepreneur Tod Stillson discusses his article “AI in medicine: Why it won’t replace doctors but will redefine them.” Tod argues that the binary debate between AI as …

Hospitals must establish safety guardrails before deploying AI [PODCAST]

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Podcast

March 8, 2026

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Physician and health care consultant Harvey Castro discusses his article “ChatGPT Health in hospitals: 5 essential safety protocols.” Harvey outlines the immense potential of large language models to reduce administrative burdens while …

AI could end the administrative nightmare for doctors [PODCAST]

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Podcast

March 6, 2026

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Internal medicine physician Shiv K. Goel discusses his article “Claude for Healthcare vs. administrative burden: a physician’s review.” Shiv contrasts the two hours he spent fighting a prior authorization with the promise …

Early-stage medical device innovation: How to discuss untested ideas

Jarelis Cabrera

Tech

March 1, 2026

Medical innovation is often framed as something that begins once a product is built, tested, funded, and approved. But anyone who has spent time in medicine or biomedical research knows that is the farthest thing from the truth. Innovation usually starts much earlier with a moment of frustration, a recurring inefficiency, or a quiet realization that something in patient care could work better.

What’s less clear is how we’re supposed to …

AI in health care data management: Curing the EHR overload

Hamad Husainy, DO

Tech

February 28, 2026

Once upon a time, clinicians didn’t have enough data about their patients.

To put it mildly, things have changed. Today we’re drowning in data. As a practicing emergency physician, it is a reality I see every day.

In an emergency department (ED) environment characterized by constant time pressure, staffing constraints, and high patient acuity, clinicians sometimes must wade through reams of electronic health records (EHR) data to find critical patient information that …

AI in clinical documentation: Who is liable for medical errors?

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Tech

February 27, 2026

The attending scrolls through the chart before morning rounds. The progress note is polished. The assessment is structured. The differential is surprisingly thorough. A predictive model flags the patient as high risk for deterioration within 24 hours. He did not write most of it.

An AI assistant drafted the note. A risk algorithm generated the alert. A decision-support tool suggested broadening the workup. He reviewed it. He agreed with most of …

Physician burnout and gaming: Why doctors turn to video games

Gerald Kuo

Tech

February 27, 2026

“The problem is not that physicians play games. The problem is that we are embarrassed to admit we need ways to feel alive again.”

At 3:17 a.m., we called the code. Thirty minutes of compressions. Three rounds of epinephrine. A room filled with controlled urgency. When it ended, the monitors fell silent before the hallway did. I finished my documentation. I washed my hands. I walked to my car. And I …

AI governance in health care: Why physicians must lead the design

Tod Stillson, MD

Physician

February 23, 2026

Artificial intelligence is no longer approaching medicine. It is already embedded inside it. It drafts our notes. It summarizes research. It suggests differentials. It triages messages. It promises efficiency, scale, and relief from burnout. Physicians are adopting it quickly. That speed should give us pause.

The greatest threat facing physicians in 2026 is not resisting artificial intelligence. It is allowing artificial intelligence in health care to be designed without us. Every …

What got you here won’t get you there: a physician’s guide to leadership

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Physician

February 19, 2026

You became a physician because you were driven. You studied longer, pushed harder, and tolerated pressure better than most. You needed to be right and usually were. That formula worked. It got you through pre-med, medical school, residency, and into practice. It earned you respect and built your reputation.

But at some point, quietly, subtly, that same formula can start working against you. I realized this after reading Marshall Goldsmith’s book, …

In the age of AI, what makes a physician REAL?

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA

Physician

February 13, 2026

It was 3:17 a.m. when the trauma pager went off. “Level 1 incoming. MVC. Hypotensive.” The trauma bay shifted instantly from stillness to choreography. Blood coolers opened. Monitors lit up. A resident’s voice tightened as he called out the vitals. The patient was young. Too young. Blood pressure in the 70s. Oxygen saturation falling. The kind of numbers that make the room feel smaller. CT was not ready. Labs were …

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