Eric Topol

A chatbot can be part of your medical team.

And this was by Tom Rosenblatt in the Wall Street Journal.

And he was basically giving tips to patients about how they could use chatbots.

And as you know, a billion people around the world are using chatbots.

And, of course, a lot are using it to help their health of themselves or their family members or friends.

And you actually reviewed some of that in the book, too.

But when that was posted, I put it up because I thought it was interesting.

There's all these people saying, you know, hard pass.

Oh, this is horrible.

I don't want an AI.

So we have a lot of problems here with negativism, both from patients, prospective patients, and doctors too, by the way.

Definitely.

Now, in a different way.

You're not a doctor.

You're not a nurse.

Like you said in the book, you don't have any stake in this.

You're trying to be an objective, neutral, you know, critique observer.

Think about all this pushback about AI and what is the basis of it?

Yeah, no, I think you're making some good points there.

I do want to go back to empathy in a moment because that's something