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Prof Dorn, your post much appreciated , and thought provoking as usual. , but I believe AI can enhance rather than diminish the meaningful aspects of healthcare. By automating routine tasks, AI allows physicians and nurses more time for human connection and intellectual engagement. The diagnostic process, for instance, could become even more stimulating with AI as a collaborative tool, providing deeper insights and allowing healthcare professionals to focus on complex cases. Education can also be enriched with AI, offering personalized learning experiences while still allowing for the joy of teaching. It's about finding the right balance and using AI to complement, not replace, the human touch in medicine.
Vice Chair & Professor of Medicine, UNC | Balanced healthcare perspectives
AI could eliminate drudgery, allowing physicians and nurses to focus on what matters most. But what if it also eliminates the work we find most meaningful and joyful? Joanna Maciejewska’s insightful recent post (image) went viral because it resonated with so many people. Like artists and writers, there are aspects of medicine and nursing we would not want to offload to a machine. For example: 1️⃣ 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: By allowing us to slow down and look up from the keyboard, AI could facilitate deeper human connection. Yet, AI used to maximize efficiency could make medicine more transactional and less interpersonal. 2️⃣ 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬: AI may one day improve diagnosis. Yet most physicians find the diagnostic process intellectually stimulating and fun. 3️⃣ 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Many already use AI to generate patient summaries and customized educational information. Yet teaching is joyful to many physicians, especially nurses. AI will change how physicians and nurses work, hopefully for the better. Still, we should carefully consider what we give up by adopting it.
