Alexandra Sifferlin

How are they holding themselves on the table?

And from that, he can immediately start to make some insights about their physical condition that could be really important to the diagnosis and that he worries about.

with these shorter appointments or even just young physicians not getting that much time at the bedside, that these kinds of skills that are important to diagnosis could be lost.

Absolutely.

I'm very interested in this idea that artificial intelligence could actually help make aspects of medicine more human.

That's a perfect example of that.

Like the physician who's turned away trying to type their notes, it's because they have to fill out all these notes for every single patient.

Now all the appointments are short because they're seeing more people and often they end up having to do this late in the night if they don't do it now.

So having the ability for AI to do that and for them to actually really sit and listen and observe you and see, how is their skin coloring looking?

Do they look swollen?

Those small observations that...

perhaps could be important, but you as a patient aren't even aware that you need to articulate them, like having more time for that, I think can be really valuable.

And if in this current system, AI is able to sort of take away some of that administrative burden that has become such a huge part of physicians practice and can infringe on appointments, I think that could be a great benefit.

Yes.

So I think the collective is really important.

There's so much value from having other people share their observations of the same patient.

And also there's so much value in sharing of experiences.

opinions even about what could be going on.

Having those moments where you as a clinician are considering an alternative is really important for diagnosis or hearing about an observation that may be

you missed, or, or hearing from the nurse who did the entire intake and who, you know, has been maybe spending more time talking to the patient than the physician has, and really incorporating them into the diagnosis can be really important.