Your job as a future doctor.

I’m not sure if many of you are paying attention to the pace of change in AI systems but someone recently asked me what would my advice be to a doctor figuring things out today and my advice to everyone is to learn to work with technology.

Theres a lot of doctors fighting against technology and a lot of doctor who are wanting to straight up ban certain kinds of Ai that have diagnostic ability. Calling it a black box or saying it’s an unknown won’t stop it.

The reality is that the current people with the levers of power don’t care. This is all going to happen, first slowly and then all at once.

Doctors need to wear the fact that they have broad clinical expertise as a badge of honour and are by a long shot at the top of the peking order in clinical practice.

Learn to work with technology, learn to be effective with AI. Don’t be resistant to this change because other people that want doctors to go away will use that as an opportunity.

The way I see a future doctor, is kind of like flight control, you will have operational oversight and a lot of technology will do the implementation along with non doctors.