Jonathan Fields

We also had probably 20, 30 more minutes with a doctor when I was younger, but, um.

What are we losing when we're asking to go to a doctor because something's wrong with us and we want the best diagnosis possible and the time spent on physical exams and what they can get from those physical exams seem to be getting shorter and shorter and shorter and sometimes they don't exist at all.

Yeah, I mean, that makes so much sense.

It's like how you can ask a lot of questions or you can have people fill out all the forms, which we generally do before we see someone now.

And as we're filling out the forms, we're trying to remember like, when did this come on?

What do I feel?

But then when you're sitting across from somebody, just if you're really trained in how to observe, you'll see so much more nuance, so much more like context and subtext

That the person might not even be consciously aware of.

So they wouldn't have shared it with you because they weren't aware it's going on.

But if you're really looking and listening and feeling, they're going to pick up stuff that would probably be just critically important.

I had a really interesting current experience.

I'm so curious what your take is on this.

Where I was in a doctor's office, first time I saw them, and they opened up a screen and they said, hey, do you mind if I just have my AI note taker running in the background so I can really pay attention to you?

And I was like, sure, sounds great.

And they just sat there and we just had like face to face, personal, not writing anything down, trusting that the technology would take care of that.

It felt so much more intimate, but also I felt like they were paying attention to me on a level and seeing things and then asking me questions about what they were seeing at a level that it had been years since I felt that.

I'm wondering if you've sort of explored that shift at all.

Yeah.

I mean, I just know from personal experience, it felt better to me.

You said before, we've all had that experience of talking to a doctor and having them kind of repeat something back to us.