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The Scribe Writes Fluent Notes. Who Writes the Doctor?
Ambient AI scribes are reducing physician burnout across US teaching hospitals while quietly excising the cognitive act that residency training depended on. When a junior doctor reviews a machine-drafted assessment rather than articulating her own, the risk is not deskilling but never-skilling — a competency that was never developed rather than one that was lost. The design decision still open on almost every teaching service is whether to require independent reasoning before the scribe's draft.
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The Second Read That Happens Before You Press Send
A study published in Radiology found that general radiologists using an AI-driven workflow matched subspecialist cancer detection rates across nearly 578,000 scans. The result is real, but detection rate is not throughput, and the staffing crisis driving 2.5% annual attrition in radiology remains unmeasured. The clinical win and the capacity win require different budgets; the trial answered only one.
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The PCCP Constraint
The Predetermined Change Control Plan is FDA's mechanism for letting AI-enabled medical devices update without a new submission. It is not a solution to the adaptive-AI problem. It is a scoping exercise written in advance. The modifications a vendor can ship without re-filing are precisely and only those the engineer defined eighteen months before knowing what the field would ask for.
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