The Doctor's Art
The Doctor's Art
Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson
AI and the Biggest Experiment in Medicine | Robert Wachter, MD
59 minutes Posted Apr 7, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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The electronic medical record (EMR) has become an unwelcome interloper in the exam room. Too often, patients find themselves answering questions delivered from behind a monitor by physicians hurriedly typing away. This isn’t the kind of care anyone wants — but it’s what the system demands. Thankfully, change may be on the horizon. AI scribes are now being rolled out in EMRs across the country, capable of listening to a visit, generating a clinic note, and freeing the physician to be pre...