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You might even get better responses over text or in a situation that's just different.

A lot of doctors are under pressure to handle a lot of patients and they are used to telling patients that they ought to lose weight or quit smoking or something and the patients never do so they are not really engaged.

If you tasked a real doc to work like the AI and answer questions on an a la carte basis and not have another patient scheduled in 20 minutes and be more concerned about "how do I bill insurance for this?" [1] than anything else.

[1] I worked for a very early clinical notes startup and I was the cynical one who thought the sure path to a viable product was billing/rebilling.



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