A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse.

Dr. Bedard, a contributing Opinion writer, is a geriatrician and a palliative care physician.

I have a confession: A.I. is making me a better doctor. And I worry that it’s making doctors-in-training worse.

Amid our recent doom cycle about whether A.I. will lead to extreme societal harms, a parallel anxiety has taken hold in medicine about whether A.I. will one day replace physicians. In the context of that panic, I feel a little sheepish admitting that I already use the technology in my practice all the time — especially since I harbor anxieties about........

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