I’m a Doctor. Here’s What A.I. Cannot Do.

Dr. Ofri is a primary care physician in New York and the editor in chief of Bellevue Literary Review.

As soon as I spotted my patient in the waiting room, I knew that I’d be admitting him to the hospital. His breathing wasn’t necessarily heavy, but there was something in the contour of his respirations that caught my eye. Or maybe it was the expression on his face — eyes more quizzical than crinkling, lips more decisively hewn than usual.

Every doctor and nurse has had this experience — a glance at a patient and the instant recognition that something has run amok in his or her physiology. This is especially common in primary care medicine, where we know our patients for years, sometimes decades. We know their gait, their heart murmurs, their blood counts. And we know........

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