Nearly one in three American adults used an AI chatbot for health information or advice in the past year. They did not wait for medicine's permission. They are tired of waiting.

On September 30, six of the nation's largest physician organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, issued a joint statement warning against claims that AI outperforms physicians. In this episode, surgeon and former president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Dr. Robin Blackstone responds with a different question: what does each contributor to a health decision, human or digital, actually add?

In this episode:

• Why Nobel Prize–winning work on creative destruction explains medicine's reaction to AI
• What Deep Blue's 1997 match against Garry Kasparov reveals about a different kind of intelligence
• How surgery earned public trust by agreeing to be measured
• Why physicians and nurse practitioners cannot be the engine of continuity, and what burnout data shows
• What this year's trials of AI in real care actually found
• Why where you live should not decide the care you can expect
• Four commitments for leadership that cannot wait

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Disclosures: Dr. Blackstone is the founder of Blackstone Health, the H4 Alliance, and the H4 Alliance Trust; author of Doctor AI and American Health: Who Gets Paid (receives royalties); principal investigator of the Doctor AI evaluation program; and serves on the board of VivaMed.