Emily Silverman
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This is the Nocturness.
I'm Emily Silverman.
Today's episode features Dr.
John Lantos, pediatrician, bioethicist, and physician writer, whose latest essay, The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, asks a deceptively simple question.
What happens to the role of the doctor when artificial intelligence becomes remarkably good at practicing medicine?
John argues that AI didn't create the challenges facing modern medicine.
It simply accelerated trends that have already been unfolding for centuries.
As medicine has become increasingly data-driven, standardized, and technological, the relationship between doctor and patient has gradually shifted.
Now, with large language models offering medical advice, empathy, and even shared decision making, we're forced to ask what remains uniquely human about the work of healing.
In our conversation, we explore the history of the doctor-patient relationship, the concept of the physician aura, and the surprising possibility that AI won't replace physicians so much as redefine what they're for.
But before we dive in, take a listen to John reading from his essay, The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
I am sitting here with Doctor John Lantos.
John, thank you so much for coming on the show.
So I wanna get into your piece, uh, The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, because I think it's a really interesting topic.
But before we get there, I would love to learn a little bit more about you.
Uh you have a long and storied career in pediatrics and in bioethics.
So I was wondering if you could maybe paint for us a sweeping arc of how you came to be a pediatrician and also how you got involved in bioethics.
I'm wondering if after this rich twenty plus year career of clinical medicine and bioethics you
If there are any like macro takeaways that you that you have, did you come away feeling more sure or less sure about ethical frameworks?
Are there any ways of thinking about ethics that solidified with you over those 20 years?
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