Morgan P. Lorio, MD, FACS

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · AI in Spine Surgery: Preserving Clinical Judgment in a Data-Driven Era · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

Those cognitive steps are difficult to measure and are rarely reimbursed in proportion to their importance, but they determine whether the right patient receives the right intervention at the right time.

Well, I don't think that replacement's the real issue, specifically for surgeons.

Healthcare already operates through algorithms, reimbursement rules, prior authorization systems, coverage policies, and outcome reporting structures.

But I can say this, AI will not enter medicine neutrally.

Artificial intelligence will likely arrive through those same systems I mentioned.

Unfortunately, skill erosion rarely shows up in the metrics we measure.

Accuracy can improve while human judgment quietly declines.

So I guess the real question becomes governance.

Yeah.

Complex patients don't always fit neatly inside efficient systems.

Historically, the surgeon in the loop judgment has allowed physicians to recognize when a patient doesn't fit the algorithm and to treat the patient rather than the pathway.

Medicine requires flexibility because real patients are real complicated.

Systems, however, often prefer predictability.

Maintaining physician oversight, therefore, becomes critical as AI becomes embedded in those systems.

Sure.

Well, I recently explored some cancer trend data within an AI system.

And when I asked whether cancer incidents had changed after COVID, the analysis suggested that incident rates were largely unchanged.

But when I examined the time series more closely, something about the pattern didn't quite fit in the data points.

The COVID years were clearly disruptive.

So we treated that period as difficult to interpret and step back to examine broader trends.

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