Doctor Mike

It doesn't connect with people.

What I'm doing doesn't matter to people unless my heart is in it.

Yeah, that's right.

No, but also, I mean, I think what's ultimately going to happen is going to be really good.

I mean, I'm a real techno-optimist on this.

That doesn't mean I'm a short-term techno.

I'm a techno-pessimist in the short term and a techno-optimist in the long term.

At the end of the day, what this is gonna be able to do is to facilitate real human beings making real human contact in the doctor-patient relationship, where we have the highest standards of tech and knowledge that's actually behind it, algorithmic knowledge behind it.

And we can really, really, really count on it.

And this is kind of what we want.

We want the best of all possible worlds, but that's gonna mean that we're gonna have to have higher standards of empathy among physicians.

which we don't.

I mean, a lot of the reason that people have trouble with their doctors is their doctors treat them like a number.

And I just happen to be lucky, economically lucky enough to have a physician that doesn't have a billion patients.

And so I can text him and he answers me.

And when I see him, I talk to him for an hour and a half if I want to, and he's interested in my research or whatever.

But I have a relationship with a guy.

That's so valuable.

Totally, totally.

But I realize that most people don't actually have that.