This is your doctor on ChatGPT

"Adam Rodman uses ChatGPT when he's stumped. The internal medicine physician and Harvard Medical School professor is upfront about it with his patients, and said he avoids putting in private medical information. "Once I did it, and the patient herself was typing in and giving additional information to the chatbot," Rodman said. "It was a three-way conversation with the two of us in ChatGPT.""

"Rodman is one of over a dozen healthcare professionalswho spoke to Business Insider aboutthe daunting task of choosing which, if any, AI tools to use. Many use general-purpose models like ChatGPT, but those may not be specialized enough - or could hallucinate faulty answers. Others choose to bring in a medical technology startup. In the first half of 2025, AI-enabled medical startups raised 62% of digital health venture funding, according to Rock Health's data."

"Since generative AI is still young, many of these tools have yet to face significant field testing, leading many hospitals to extensively trial and pilot these tools in-house. These tests look for medical ethics - and whether the tools are helpful in the first place. Many healthcare professionals still choose not to touch the tech at all. According to an Elsevier Health survey, 48% of doctors reported using an AI tool in their work."

Clinicians increasingly use AI as a diagnostic aide or workflow tool, with some openly involving patients in chatbot interactions while avoiding private data. General-purpose models like ChatGPT are commonly used but risk lacking medical specialization and producing hallucinations. Many clinicians partner with medical-technology startups, which attracted the majority of digital health venture funding in early 2025. Hospitals are conducting in-house trials and pilots to assess ethics, safety, and clinical utility before broader deployment. Adoption is growing: about 48% of doctors report using AI tools, up from 26% the prior year, often for automating note-taking.

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