John Reisman

And I think when I thought about it, I realized it's actually a big part of being a human is a script. And you're not just improvising and freewheeling it all day long every day. We're all kind of following roles to some extent, though we may improvise on the script. Obviously, I'm not reciting the same words. exact words to every patient. It is a conversation. There is a back and forth.

And I think when I thought about it, I realized it's actually a big part of being a human is a script. And you're not just improvising and freewheeling it all day long every day. We're all kind of following roles to some extent, though we may improvise on the script. Obviously, I'm not reciting the same words. exact words to every patient. It is a conversation. There is a back and forth.

So it's sort of like you have the script, but then you sort of improvise on it to fit it to the specific context or the specific conversation that you're having. And that's kind of like how human life works in society, I think.

So it's sort of like you have the script, but then you sort of improvise on it to fit it to the specific context or the specific conversation that you're having. And that's kind of like how human life works in society, I think.

I think we will. I think there's no other way. I think so many areas of life have reduced human to human interaction. You know, I sometimes use chat bots online to get certain banking tasks accomplished. And I think most of health care can go that same way. You know, doctors are expensive. Maintaining facilities are very expensive.

I think we will. I think there's no other way. I think so many areas of life have reduced human to human interaction. You know, I sometimes use chat bots online to get certain banking tasks accomplished. And I think most of health care can go that same way. You know, doctors are expensive. Maintaining facilities are very expensive.

Health care is a huge proportion of our national costs for the country. And so reducing those costs will be great. Hopefully, in some ways, we'll increase access, decrease the cost. But as a side effect, there'll be less human interaction. There'll be more interaction with machines, with AIs. So it's kind of a brave new world we're entering.

Health care is a huge proportion of our national costs for the country. And so reducing those costs will be great. Hopefully, in some ways, we'll increase access, decrease the cost. But as a side effect, there'll be less human interaction. There'll be more interaction with machines, with AIs. So it's kind of a brave new world we're entering.

And hopefully, we can find the right balance without losing our humanity, even though we're interacting less and less with other humans.

And hopefully, we can find the right balance without losing our humanity, even though we're interacting less and less with other humans.

Certainly AI can be very helpful even without feeling any compassion itself. I don't think any of us strive for a world where all human compassion and emotion is driven out and only technical verbal scripts of compassion remain.

Certainly AI can be very helpful even without feeling any compassion itself. I don't think any of us strive for a world where all human compassion and emotion is driven out and only technical verbal scripts of compassion remain.

Surely humans caring for each other, a doctor caring for their patient, a doctor feeling terrible about what they've just discovered on a CAT scan inside a patient's abdomen or skull. Surely that compassion must stay in the world and we must maintain it. And AI, you know, if you're just writing a form letter to a patient about some ho-hum test result, that's not that serious.

Surely humans caring for each other, a doctor caring for their patient, a doctor feeling terrible about what they've just discovered on a CAT scan inside a patient's abdomen or skull. Surely that compassion must stay in the world and we must maintain it. And AI, you know, if you're just writing a form letter to a patient about some ho-hum test result, that's not that serious.

I don't think tremendous compassion is needed. But certainly some is needed in these more human moments. And I think it will take some adaptation. And I wonder how far... Humans can take it. You know, traditionally, we talk to each other face to face.

I don't think tremendous compassion is needed. But certainly some is needed in these more human moments. And I think it will take some adaptation. And I wonder how far... Humans can take it. You know, traditionally, we talk to each other face to face.

We hear each other's voice, which turned into the written word where you can send a letter across the country and you're not looking at the patient, which turned into sort of like a telecommunications where we see each other, but we're across some distant geographic chasm. So the way we communicate with each other has changed so much. So I wonder how much AI communication we can tolerate.

We hear each other's voice, which turned into the written word where you can send a letter across the country and you're not looking at the patient, which turned into sort of like a telecommunications where we see each other, but we're across some distant geographic chasm. So the way we communicate with each other has changed so much. So I wonder how much AI communication we can tolerate.

Maybe patients won't actually miss their human doctors all that much. Most diagnoses I deliver are not life changing. they're pretty ho-hum. They are, oh, you sprained your ankle, you didn't break it, or you broke it and didn't sprain and you're going to follow up with an orthopedist, or you have strep throat, or you don't have strep throat, you have a viral cause of your sore throat.

Maybe patients won't actually miss their human doctors all that much. Most diagnoses I deliver are not life changing. they're pretty ho-hum. They are, oh, you sprained your ankle, you didn't break it, or you broke it and didn't sprain and you're going to follow up with an orthopedist, or you have strep throat, or you don't have strep throat, you have a viral cause of your sore throat.