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#Nature: "Is #AI ruining our #skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good"

... Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of #physicians and #software #engineers, studies show ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#deskilling

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

דער קערפער פֿון השם 4d ago

"The new #book The #Jewish #Woman’s #Health Handbook: Navigating Personal and Family #Healthcare for all Stages of Life (#MosaicaPress) represents a similar societal progress, offering the first resource of its kind specifically tailored to the needs and concerns of #Orthodox Jewish #women. #Edited by Dr. #JennieBerkovich, DO, and Dr. #MiriamKnoll, MD, it features 9 chapters by female #physicians and health-care professionals.

The #editors and contributors are members of the Jewish #OrthodoxWomen’s #Medical Association (#JOWMA). The organization provides free health education to the entire Orthodox #Jewishcommunity and supports a network of current and future Jewish female physician leaders. Their vision is a Jewish community that has easy access to culturally sensitive and relevant health information and can make informed medical decisions."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-the-jewish-womans-health-handbook/

AIagent.at 🤖 AI News 4d ago

#AMIE, an #LLM based #agenticsystem, demonstrates strong performance in #diseasemanagement reasoning, outperforming primary care #physicians in a randomised study. It leverages #Gemini’s long-context capabilities to align outputs with clinical guidelines and drug formularies. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10764-5?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI

Towards Conversational AI for Disease Management - Nature

While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in diagnostic dialogue1, their capabilities for effective management reasoning—including disease progression, therapeutic response, and safe medication prescription—remain under-explored. We advance the previously demonstrated diagnostic capabilities of the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE)1−3 through a new LLM-based agentic system optimized for multi-visit clinical management and dialogue. To ground its reasoning in authoritative clinical knowledge, AMIE leverages Gemini’s long-context capabilities4, combining in-context retrieval with structured reasoning to align its output with up-to-date clinical practice guidelines and drug formularies. In a randomized, blinded virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) study, AMIE was compared to 21 primary care physicians (PCPs) across 100 multi-visit case scenarios designed to reflect UK NICE Guidance and BMJ Best Practice guidelines. AMIE was non-inferior to PCPs in management reasoning as assessed by specialists and scored better in both preciseness of treatments and investigations, and in its alignment with and grounding in clinical guidelines. To benchmark medication reasoning, we developed RxQA, a multiple-choice question benchmark derived from two national drug formularies (US, UK) and validated by board-certified pharmacists. Though AMIE and PCPs both benefited from the ability to access external drug information, AMIE outperformed PCPs on higher difficulty questions. While further research would be needed before real-world translation, AMIE’s strong performance across evaluations marks a significant step towards conversational AI as a tool in disease management.

Nature

Bich Nguyen 5d ago

"Emergency medicine physicians under contract with Valley Health in Winchester, Virginia, said they were blindsided by the news that the health system planned to end their contract and partner with a private-equity owned practice management company instead."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/121757

#healthcare #hospitals #PrivateEquity #physicians #EmergencyMed #contracts #business #virginia

ED Docs Being Replaced by Private Equity-Owned Firm Call It a 'Kick in the Teeth'

Virginia health system physicians offered jobs with lower base pay, fewer benefits, fewer hours

MedpageToday

Bich Nguyen Jun 12

"At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting this week, members of the group’s House of Delegates are sending a direct message to their leaders: Call out Kennedy, even if it costs us in the pocketbook.

That message was stated most clearly in the election of Sandra Fryhofer, an internist from Atlanta and uncompromising Kennedy critic, as AMA president-elect."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/ama-doctors-physicians-rfk-vaccines-00957489

#healthcare #PublicHealth #AMA #physicians #medicaid #medicare #vaccines #lgbtq #transgender #USpol

America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.

The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise.

Politico

CBC Prince Edward Island Jun 10

New head of family medicine in P.E.I. hopes to rebuild trust between province and doctors
Dr. Kevin Workentin is the new provincial department head of family medicine with Health P.E.I., a role he began in April. He sat down with CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin to talk about how he and his team will be trying to mend a strained relationship between government and physicians.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7230598?cmp=rss

Bich Nguyen Jun 10

"A Trump administration initiative to impose $100,000 fees on employers seeking visas for skilled foreign workers amounts to an unlawful tax on those companies and must be voided 'in its entirety,' a federal judge ruled on Monday."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/politics/judge-visa-skilled-workers-fee-trump.html

#healthcare #hospitals #workers #physicians #nurses #labor #immigration #visas #USpol #courts

Judge Throws Out Trump Administration’s Policy Imposing $100,000 Fees for H-1B Visas

The ruling voided “in its entirety” a policy from September requiring companies to pay $100,000 fees for H-1B visa petitions.

The New York Times

Alex

Jun 3

I had an initial appt with my new GP/PCP yesterday. It went pretty well, but it was weird having to justify why I need a cane, and why I am disabled. For the latter, I was trying to give a succinct reason, and didn't give the full picture because we were in a time crunch. I hope I was taken seriously, and have started a solid working relationship with her.

#Physicians

CBC Health Jun 3

Still no triage liaison physicians in Alberta ERs, 4 months after province's pledge
More than four months after pledging that emergency physicians would soon begin roles monitoring waiting room patients, the Alberta government’s promised triage liaison physicians aren’t yet on the job.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-hospital-er-triage-liaison-doctors-review-deaths-9.7221063?cmp=rss

CBC Canada Jun 3