What AI can’t see
in the exam room.
It gives confident answers. It can’t read the pallor, hear the tremor, or feel what’s firm under the skin. A free curriculum on using medical AI well — taught from every seat in the room.
Four seats · one encounter
The same case, taught from where you sit.
Bring AI findings to your visit so they help — and know when to stop reading and get seen.
Advocate well when the app and the care team disagree about someone you love.
Receive the AI-informed patient: validate what it got right, correct what it missed, document the difference.
Triage, reconcile, and educate at the bedside when AI is already in the room.
Inside a lesson
Every case, from both sides of the screen.
A 45-year-old arrives fatigued, having already asked an AI. It suggested a thyroid workup. Here is the part of the lesson where the encounter turns.
Fatigue can signal thyroid disease, and a TSH is a reasonable first test.
It never saw the pale conjunctivae, never asked about six months of heavy periods. The anemia in front of you outranks the algorithm’s differential.
AI generates lists. Physicians see patients. The pallor took two seconds to observe and reframed the entire workup.
“Optimize the clinician.
You can’t replace them.”
Written by a practicing, board-certified surgeon. Free to read, with no account required. Sign in only if you want to track progress or earn a certificate of completion.