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Old-fashioned Intelligence Will Always Be Needed in Medicine

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is new and enticing, but the idea that it will make physicians expendable is hyperbole. Medicine is a moral art that balances values and desires. Old-fashioned human intelligence will always be needed in medicine.

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