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EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 38 MIN

How should you and your doctor use AI?

from Healthcare is Stupid · host Jonathan Mates

One in four ChatGPT users — roughly 200 million people a week — use it for health questions. About a third of them end up changing their medications or requesting referrals based on what it tells them.Is that brilliant, terrifying, or both?In this episode, we dig into the question everyone is asking themselves, whether they want to or not: How should my doctor be using AI? And how should I?We bring in Rachel Lomasky — an AI scientist and expert — to help us give both the patient perspective and a realistic view of what AI is capable of.Links:Large Language Model Performance and Clinical Reasoning TasksAre AI Tools Ready to Answer Patients’ Questions About Their Medical Care? America’s Largest City Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says

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One in four ChatGPT users — roughly 200 million people a week — use it for health questions. About a third of them end up changing their medications or requesting referrals based on what it tells them. Is that brilliant, terrifying, or both? In this episode, we dig into the question everyone is asking themselves, whether they want to or not: How should my doctor be using AI? And how should I? We bring in Rachel Lomasky [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlomasky?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios] — an AI scientist and expert — to help us give both the patient perspective and a realistic view of what AI is capable of. Links: Large Language Model Performance and Clinical Reasoning Tasks [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2847679?utm_source=openevidence&utm_medium=referral] Are AI Tools Ready to Answer Patients' Questions About Their Medical Care? [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2846269?utm_source=openevidence&utm_medium=referral] America's Largest City Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says [https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/hospital-ceo-ai-radiology]

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