Opinion: Every doctor is a writer: On the end of note-writing and meaning-making in medicine
“As a doctor who is very much a writer, I feel a sense of dread and even grief at this new option (or pressure) to outsource my note-writing to AI,”…
Every doctor is a writer, or that’s what I used to believe. From the first days of medical school, my classmates and I learned how to write, albeit for a particular purpose and according to strict rules — a type of writing that wasn’t necessarily beautiful, or even particularly interesting. But it was writing.
I still have some of those earnest attempts from my first year:
