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The thing that irks me is that AI sounds exactly like a medical student: fluent, certain, and not yet wrong enough times to know better. That's fine in a med student, because med students have residents, fellows, and attendings to correct them. AI doesn’t have any of those.

Sometimes I’ll hear a confident medical student presentation, and my initial reaction is “Damn, they’re really cocky.” But then I remind myself… they just haven’t been burned by biology yet.

No shade to med students — I know that voice of confidence, because it was mine, too. We’ve all been there.

Then residency happens. You see weird presentations of common diseases. You watch real, terrible things happen to normal people — things no textbook warned you were even possible, let alone probable — and whatever innocence you had left goes with them.