About whether LLMs will take over most of the mental work doctors do.
Has this happened?
Yes 86 (64%)Not sure 36 (27%)No 12 (9%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether LLMs will take over most of the mental work doctors do.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Call me when an LLM can ingest a pts medical record from 3 different sources in multiple formats ranging from structured data to free form text stored (I shit you not) as TIFF files, extract the actual information, and present it for review prior to a visit
and for a follow up visit, read the prior visit's note and orders, search/track down all the test results (may be at more than one institution with multiple EHR systems that don't interchange) and summarize
or even just be able to take verbal orders like it used to be: "get a CBC, CMP, TSH, and CXR"
The NEJM CPC's are after the hard work has already been done to get the data to present the case