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Awakening to the Realities of AI in Healthcare

  • Jul 20, 2020Jan 31, 2023

By Ellen Nantau

I was standing in an airport customs line when I realized that I wanted to be a physician. An announcement sounded overhead – an employee asking if anyone present was a doctor. My parents, both in medicine, shared a look. We were already at risk of missing our connecting flight and neither of them were currently in general practice or emergency medicine. When no one else stepped forward, my father pushed through the nearby crowd that had formed around a seated woman, crouched to her level, and told her that he was a doctor.

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