How AI is reshaping oncologists' trust in their own clinical judgment
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Joe Kita
Summary
This article explores how oncologists develop clinical intuition over years of practice and how the rise of AI in medicine is challenging that hard-won skill. Through the story of a young patient with metastatic pancreatic cancer whose unusual side effects led her oncologist, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, to trust his gut and order a liquid biopsy revealing a pharmacogenomic issue, the piece examines the tension between human judgment and machine-driven pattern recognition in cancer care. It raises questions about what happens to physicians' trust in their own instincts when AI systems begin doing the diagnostic heavy lifting.
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After 13-plus years in practice, Loaiza-Bonilla trusted his intuition that something didn't fit.
Oncologists spend years learning to trust their own judgment, an ability that marries intuition with reasoning. What happens to that hard-won skill when AI starts doing the pattern-matching for them?
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