Episode 60
AI Can’t Give the Hug
Short blurb here about how I was just hosted (is that the word?) on a podcast! Listen to the full podcast here: AI, Education and the Human Touch of Medicine
I had the privilege of joining Dr. Travis Bias on the Solventum Health IT podcast to talk about something I think about every day: what happens to medical education — and to medicine itself — when AI enters the room.
The conversation was titled AI, Education and the Human Touch of Medicine. We know AI is genuinely impacting how we train physicians. It’s changing how residents learn, how they study, how they get feedback. At USF, we’re leaning into that — building tools that meet residents where they are and prepare them for a world where AI is a clinical partner, not a novelty.
But here’s what I keep coming back to:
“The hugs, the tears, helping patients get their socks on, and walking them out to their car, celebrating the new pregnancy — those are the things that are not going to be taken.”
That’s what I told Travis, and I meant it. No algorithm is holding hands in the 2am conversation with a family in the ICU. No model captures what it means to sit with a patient who just got a terrible diagnosis and has no one else in the room. That is what we train for.
Give it a listen and let me know your opinion!
(Full disclosure: Travis is an excellent host and a gifted editor. Whatever coherent thoughts came out of my mouth are largely his doing.)
Listen to the full episode here: AI, Education and the Human Touch of Medicine