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I too feel a bit worried about AI making mistakes, but the thing is that a doctor rushing or an assistant can (and do) make mistakes too. These are all just cost vs quality of service tradeoffs. From my experience (having been in and out of hospitals a lot in the last year) it wouldn't surprise me if AI, even with occasional mistakes, would still be a net improvement in overall quality of care and outcomes.

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I’m not a fan of, “but humans make mistakes too,” defense.

They do but we don’t consider it an improvement when they are made. The goal isn’t to have mistakes.

The goal is to maintain (or improve) outcomes without burning out clinicians. Using an LLM isn’t the only solution and might not be a good one.

If this is going to be a thing I hope that policy around it will inform patients when the physician plans to use it and allow a patient to opt out.

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