EPISODE · May 3, 2026 · 53 MIN
S1, E35 - Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH: Physician-as-Patient Perspective on AI in Healthcare
from Practical AI in Healthcare · host Steven Labkoff, MD and Leon Rozenblit, JD, PhD
When physician Barry Chaiken was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his clinical training gave way to fear. It took a friend asking, "What are you doing?" to snap him back into doctor-mode thinking. That experience reshaped how he sees AI in healthcare. In this episode, Chaiken draws on his dual perspective as physician and two-time cancer survivor to argue that consumer health AI is failing patients, not because the models are bad, but because patients don't know how to use them. He shares a practical framework for AI-assisted patient education, makes the case for an aviation-style safety reporting system for healthcare AI, and explains why interoperability is an incentive problem, not a technology problem.
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When physician Barry Chaiken was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his clinical training gave way to fear. It took a friend asking, "What are you doing?" to snap him back into doctor-mode thinking. That experience reshaped how he sees AI in healthcare. In this episode, Chaiken draws on his dual perspective as physician and two-time cancer survivor to argue that consumer health AI is failing patients, not because the models are bad, but because patients don't know how to use them. He shares a practical framework for AI-assisted patient education, makes the case for an aviation-style safety reporting system for healthcare AI, and explains why interoperability is an incentive problem, not a technology problem.
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