Research
AI & Doctoring
As AI takes on more of medicine's formal knowledge work, the question of doctoring becomes more important, not less.
AI is changing how medicine retrieves information, summarizes records, documents encounters, and supports decisions. That raises a deeper question: what forms of judgment, interpretation, communication, and responsibility must physicians now develop more deliberately?
Poet Doctor approaches these questions through the craft of doctoring. The goal is to help medicine enter a new era with stronger human judgment at its center.
What becomes more important
Judgment
Which forms of judgment remain distinctly physician responsibilities, and how should they be strengthened as AI systems grow more capable?
Interpretation
How should physicians interpret machine-generated outputs in ways that remain accountable to patients, context, and clinical experience?
Communication
What does it mean to explain decisions well when the pathway to a recommendation involves both human and machine reasoning?
Responsibility
How should responsibility be understood and developed when knowledge work is shared across people, systems, and tools?
The question behind the project
Poet Doctor is concerned with what strong doctoring should become under new conditions. The aim is to help medicine enter a new era with stronger human judgment at its center.
Responsible inquiry
Poet Doctor's research asks what physicians should continue to notice, judge, communicate, and own — and how those capacities can be strengthened. Responsibility stays at the center.
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