{"id":10829,"date":"2025-11-19T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:04:29","slug":"empathetic-available-cheap-when-a-i-offers-what-doctors-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/empathetic-available-cheap-when-a-i-offers-what-doctors-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/16\/well\/ai-chatbot-doctors-health-care-advice.html\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frustrated by the medical system, some patients are turning to chatbots for help. At what cost? Wendy Goldberg thought her question was straightforward enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 79-year-old retired lawyer in Los Angeles, Ms. Goldberg wanted to eat more protein, something she had read could help rebuild bone density. She hoped her primary care provider could tell her exactly how much was enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She dashed off a message, but the response left her feeling that the doctor hadn\u2019t read her question, or even her chart. The doctor offered generic advice: Stop smoking (she doesn\u2019t smoke), avoid alcohol (she doesn\u2019t drink), exercise regularly (she works out three times a week). Most infuriatingly, she was advised to eat \u201cadequate protein to support bone health,\u201d no specifics included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frustrated, Ms. Goldberg posed the same question to ChatGPT. Within seconds, it produced a daily protein goal in grams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She shot back one last message to her doctor: \u201cI can get more information from ChatGPT than I can from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Frustrated by the medical system, some patients are turning to chatbots for help. At what cost? Wendy Goldberg thought her question was straightforward enough. A 79-year-old retired lawyer in Los Angeles, Ms. Goldberg wanted to eat more protein, something she had read could help rebuild bone density. She hoped her primary care provider could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10830,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions\/10830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}