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AI will enhance doctor-patient interactions significantly.

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aliases@stern_i_2026, loc. 369

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AI will enhance doctor-patient interactions significantly.

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Two years from now, you should never sit and talk to a doctor without an LLM being in the meeting, and doing the transcript, the paperwork and suggesting things that you missed. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 369

But who will benefit most from this innovation—us, the patients, or the companies using and building these systems? … What happens to the doctor-patient relationship when the “doctor” is basically a dataset? … And what if we place so much trust in machine doctors that our human doctors lose what made them doctors in the first place? — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 154

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  • QUESTION: This raises fundamental questions about the role of human doctors in an AI-dominant landscape.
  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 369; Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 154
  • XREF: connects to: AI consultations will likely become a norm in healthcare sessions. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 381; AI in healthcare can improve diagnostic accuracy in certain cases. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 213; Overreliance on AI could diminish human emotional support in therapy. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 1196 (+2 more)

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