Dr. Dhruv Khullar
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first heard Jun 2026
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I mean, there are certainly some things that technology has made less important over time.
You know, we were probably better at listening to the heart in the past or palpating the liver.
And now we have echocardiograms and MRIs and CT scans.
And I think people don't see that as a huge loss.
But I do think that there's something different about the critical reasoning skills that are required to make a diagnosis or to walk someone through, let's say, a CBT or a complex medical procedure that we really want to preserve in clinicians.
And again, I think what we should be focused on right now is making sure that people have a sense of the power of these tools, but also the limitations of these tools, that they're integrating them.
In ways that are useful and maybe take away some of the routine tasks that people have been burdened by.
I'm thinking about discharge summaries and clinical documentation and chart summarization, but be extremely cautious about displacing the critical thinking that goes into understanding what's going on with the patient and what that patient needs.
And I said note as another complicating factor, sometimes we
We think documentation is totally superfluous and distinct from the job of medicine.
But there's a lot of doctors, myself included, that really think through the case when you're writing the note because you realize that things aren't stacking up the way that you initially thought they were, that you missed this lab finding or you recall something that the patient said and
when you're trying to write it down in a coherent story, you see some of the parts are not fitting quite right.
And so there is some critical thinking that goes in there.
And so I don't think it's quite as easy as just saying, thank goodness we no longer have to write notes, but we'll preserve every bit of the cognitive work that we were doing before.
What you thought.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
One of the things that became really apparent was how long we've been trying to do this.
So there were chatbots back in the 1960s where people were trying to deliver some version of therapy via an automated chatbot.
So this has been a half century long journey.
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