AI scribes are everywhere in healthcare now and I have genuinely mixed feelings about them
Summary
The author shares mixed feelings about AI scribes in healthcare, acknowledging the relief they bring to clinicians but raising concerns about the accuracy of auto-generated notes being permanently stored in medical records.
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