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Stebbings: I Use ChatGPT for Most Medical Queries Instead of Seeing Doctors
“Like, I use ChatGPT for most of my medical queries now, and it prevents me from seeing a lot of doctors.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 52:40 ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban: AI will impact healthcare but won't replace doctors
“For health, it's going to make a huge difference, but it's not going to replace doctors.”
Mark Cuban Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 22:27 Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
20VC Opinion
Stebbings: ChatGPT Is Already Better Than the Majority of Doctors
“I think OpenAI and ChatGPT is a lot better than the majority of doctors at this point, actually.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 45:12 Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Brockman: Doctors used OpenAI's o3 to diagnose a 20-year mysterious ailment
“Like, for example, today we announced I we have in peer reviewed literature, people, doctors who are using O three. Remember O three? It was like forever ago now. Right. It was like one of our earliest reasoning models using that to find diagnoses for People w…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 13:51 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hinton: AI systems already outperform human doctors at diagnosis
“And already we know that AI systems are better than doctors at diagnosis.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 33:40 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Dr. Oz: Large language models outperform doctors on medical board exams
“The large language models do better on board exams. So, they take general knowledge. They're better than a doctor. They're more patient than a doctor.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 14:11 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
NEON SHOW Insight
Aggarwal: Healthcare startups only succeed by latching onto government compliance mandates
“If you want to be successful in healthcare startups, my personal advice is that latch on to some initiative, whether it's compliance, or whether it's government initiative, or somewhere where there's a wave of creating wealth and solving a problem, because oth…”
Sachin Aggarwal Nov 12, 2025 ▶ 6:15 The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: In 10 to 20 years, doctors won't be human knowledge stores
“I actually think there will be a position for a doctor, 10 years from now, 20 years from now. It won't be as the knowledge store. It will be as a user of an, as an expert user of the knowledge store, but it's not gonna be, oh, because I went to med school for …”
Reid Hoffman Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 9:17 Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Rampell: Two-thirds of doctors now use Open Evidence AI
“Apparently two thirds of doctors now use open evidence which is like chat GPT, but it ingested the New England Journal of Medicine.”
Alex Rampell Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 19:53 Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
Andreessen: ChatGPT is already a better doctor than your human doctor
“ChatGPT is, in fact, a better doctor than your doctor today with, like, almost a hundred percent certainty, and just the fact that it can't literally be your doctor doesn't mean you're not going to ask all the doctor questions”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 55:12 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadler: Human Doctors Will Remain in the Loop for Our Lifetimes
“I think they're going to be in the loop for a very, very, very long time, and for the rest of our lifetimes, if not longer.”
Daniel Nadler Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 22:50 No Priors Ep. 130 | With OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
TBPN Opinion
Cuban: Consulting ChatGPT for medical issues is sometimes easier than finding doctors
“It's easier to chat GPT about your own personal medical situation. Then it is to find a doctor to talk to sometimes.”
Mark Cuban Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 5:05 Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President.
ALL-IN Opinion
Chamath: Making $400k with no debt is probably better than making $1M as a doctor
“When you make 400 K and have no debt, I'm sorry, but that is probably actually better than being the doctor making a million bucks.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 17, 2025 ▶ 9:38 The Hidden Crisis Modern Men Are Facing - Chamath Palihapitiya
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fortuna: Ambience saves clinicians up to two hours per day
“And the end result is like, we'll save doctors, you know, up to two hours a day.”
Brendan Fortuna Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 1:39 ⚡️Using RFT to Build Clinical Superintelligence
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: Suleyman's Medical AI Barely Outperforms Standard LLMs Under Fair Conditions
“It improved performance by Forex over doctors who didn't have like access to Google and I guess their colleagues. But when you looked at the fine print, this orchestration system helped, but performed not Forex better than traditional LLMs, but like a few perc…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 45:04 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2030
Parr: Young adults will trust AI over doctors within five years
“I bet that the 18 year old today in five years, they're going to go to the doctor. And when they go to the doctor, they're going to tell their doctor, this is the illness that I have. And I think it's this because what you and I would have said five years ago,…”
Sam Parr Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 16:44 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Liu: Everyone should run their lab diagnostics through AI like ChatGPT
“I mean, I think, like, today, it's already better to, I mean, everybody should be taking all of their, you know, personal, like health diagnostics, you get a blood test or whatever, and, like, running that through ChatGPT, like, upload it, Asko three, like, He…”
Howie Liu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 17:22 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hanna: AI efficiency gains will increase doctor appointment pressure, not ease workloads
“And these efficiency gains from doctors isn't going to, like, Make their jobs necessarily easier. It's going to put more of a pressure on them. Not that you're in a position where you don't have to take medical notes. You're going to be running from position t…”
Alex Hanna May 14, 2025 ▶ 44:21 AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking
SOURCERY Insight
Peters: A doctor's core role is an informatics problem triangulating three databases
“Basically healthcare is, a doctor's job is an informatics problem, right? You're computing between, when you're a doctor and you go see a patient, you're computing between a database of what you know about a patient, what you know about medicine, and what inte…”
Jacob Peters Apr 22, 2025 ▶ 28:43 Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
NO PRIORS Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2035
Rao: Doctors and Nurses Will Not Be Fully Automated in 10 Years
“And the thesis for us in healthcare delivery is that we don't think doctors or nurses are going to get fully automated over the next 10 years.”
Dr. Shiv Rao Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 0:51 No Priors Ep. 108 | With Abridge Founder and CEO Shiv Rao, MD
NO PRIORS Assertion Partly supported
Rao: Medical Journal Study Shows Doctors Need 30 Hours Daily for Workload
“There's an American journal, a general internal medicine article from last year that suggests that doctors need 30 hours a day to get all of their work done.”
Dr. Shiv Rao Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 35:26 No Priors Ep. 108 | With Abridge Founder and CEO Shiv Rao, MD
BIGDEAL Opinion
Codie Sanchez: Doctors advising on health should visibly look fit
“Like if people are healthy, it doesn't mean hot, like you have to look like Kim Kardashian, but like healthy and fit and talking to us about being healthy and fit, you should probably look the fucking part. Is that a crazy thing to say that like doctors should…”
Codie Sanchez Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 1:50 Ozempic Expert: They’re Lying To You About Getting Fat | Dr. Tyna Moore
BIGDEAL Insight
Dr. Moore: Doctors default to treatments tied to specialty and profits
“Because that's their hammer. And that hammer is profitable. It's their hammer, you know, like every, every doctor is going to have their hammer.”
Dr. Tyna Moore Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 41:11 Ozempic Expert: They’re Lying To You About Getting Fat | Dr. Tyna Moore
BIGDEAL Opinion
Sanchez: Doctors provide no escape plan for chronic cholesterol medications
“It's fascinating, actually, because no doctors give you an escape plan for medicine. I mean, for cholesterol levels. You're just on cholesterol medicine for the rest of your life.”
Codie Sanchez Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 41:01 High Performance Coach: The Truth About Losing Weight & Belly Fat | Dan Go
BIGDEAL Opinion
Dan Go: Consumers Seeking Magic Pills Drive Prescription Drug Demand
“And I feel like it's, you know, a lot of doctors catch a lot of flack for recommending these drugs, but The unfortunate thing is, is that it is the consumer that actually is asking for this stuff.”
Dan Go Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 42:38 High Performance Coach: The Truth About Losing Weight & Belly Fat | Dan Go
Puri: ChatGPT Explains Medical Test Results Better Than Doctors
“And we just upload all of the screenshots into chat GPT. We're like, what does this mean? And it gives us beautiful, perfect bedside manner explanations, more patient, more thorough than the doctor. You could ask follow-up questions at your own leisure.”
Shaan Puri Jan 24, 2025 ▶ 25:24 I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Van Der Beek: Flawed studies halted medical training for breech births
“What I discovered were there were some outdated studies on breech births that took into account third world countries without a head down counterpart. So the studies were heavily flawed, and at that time they stopped training doctors how to do breech births.”
Kimberly Van Der Beek Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 8:52 Why You're Not Getting Pregnant | Kimberly Van Der Beek
BIGDEAL Assertion Contradicted
Van Der Beek: Only about 10% of medical schools teach nutrition
“But are doctors trained in nutrition? Most of them are not. Last I checked, it was about 10% of medical schools.”
Kimberly Van Der Beek Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 13:05 Why You're Not Getting Pregnant | Kimberly Van Der Beek
BIGDEAL Opinion
Van Der Beek: Mothers doing their own research can out-educate doctors
“So if you take like a mom following her intuitive guidance and, you know, unraveling and actually sitting there and going through the peer reviewed studies and the research and all of that, you may have somebody that's actually far more educated than a lot of …”
Kimberly Van Der Beek Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 13:24 Why You're Not Getting Pregnant | Kimberly Van Der Beek
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Benioff: Clinical study found ChatGPT diagnosed patients more accurately than doctors
“They wrote up a clinical study where they actually did kind of looked at in a semi kind of peer reviewed way. That ChatGPT in many cases was giving more accurate diagnoses than a doctor because the doctor had a more bias coming in working with the patient.”
Marc Benioff Dec 22, 2024 ▶ 35:44 Behind the founder: Marc Benioff
a16z Assertion Supported
Yoo: U.S. faces active shortage of up to 100K doctors
“When you look at, for instance, the number of doctors that we have estimated a shortage in it's anywhere between, let's call it, 60 to a hundred K doctors today, as of today, in terms of the relative demand that we have in our system, and roughly about 75 K to…”
Julie Yoo Dec 18, 2024 ▶ 1:13 AI: The Ultimate Healthcare Hire
THE PITCH Opinion
Banister: Nurse Practitioners Are Just as Good as Medical Doctors
“And these nurse practitioners are just as good as any doctor.”
Cyan Banister Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 13:18 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!
Michalik: Doctors are the weakest party in US healthcare bargaining
“If you think about the big three forces of healthcare, it's these HMOs negotiating to keep rates down and provide access. Hospitals are negotiating to bring in as many patients as they can and get the highest prices they can to cover their fixed costs in their…”
Chris and Rob Michalik Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 36:20 Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
BIGDEAL Assertion Partly supported
Van Edwards: Doctors rated lowest in warmth and competence face highest malpractice lawsuits
“The doctors who had the lowest ratings in warmth and competence had the highest rate of malpractice lawsuits.”
Vanessa Van Edwards Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 7:45 Communication Expert: Master the Secret Art of Charisma & Influence | Vanessa Van Edwards
a16z Insight
Yoo: Doctors design schedules defensively to protect against bad software
“You would see the way that doctors designed their schedule and very much to your point, they would design the templates of their schedules specifically in a very protective, like almost a defensive way. Because they felt wronged by the way that the system sent…”
Julie Yoo Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 14:21 Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI with Vijay Pande and Julie Yoo
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Yoo: Fewer than 70% of doctors used EHRs five years ago
“Even five years ago, like, less than, you know, 70% of doctors had an electronic health record.”
Julie Yoo Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 15:59 Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI with Vijay Pande and Julie Yoo
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Means: 90% of US doctors graduate without taking a single nutrition class
“90% of doctors graduate without taking one nutrition class. To this day.”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 13:06 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Means: Doctors have the highest suicide and burnout rates in America
“One statistic that's alarming, doctors have the highest suicide rate and highest rate of burnout of any profession in America.”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 32:38 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
NEON SHOW Insight
Ganesh: Healthcare Brand Switching Is Extremely Difficult Due to High Loyalty
“Changing a brand is very, very difficult. It's difficult to move people from one brand to the other, be it a doctor, be it a hospital, be it a healthcare provider like Potia. It is something that requires a lot of effort to move people from one brand to the ot…”
Meena Ganesh Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 13:38 She Sold Her Companies To ICICI & Pearson, Then Built Portea - Serving 1 Mil Patients In 40+ Cities
NEON SHOW Insight
Ganesh: Loss of patient eye contact drives doctor resistance to EMRs
“Today with generative AI, you might actually be able to overcome a lot of barriers that are there currently. Now, what is the barrier for a doctor to fill in an EMR? I mean, what's the point? And you and I are having a consultation and you're looking away doin…”
Meena Ganesh Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 17:03 She Sold Her Companies To ICICI & Pearson, Then Built Portea - Serving 1 Mil Patients In 40+ Cities
NEON SHOW Opinion
Ganesh: Experienced nurses are often more capable than newly minted doctors
“And in many cases, nurses are much more capable than a newly formed Newly minted doctor because of all the experience that they've had, but they're not permitted to say anything or do anything.”
Meena Ganesh Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 36:13 She Sold Her Companies To ICICI & Pearson, Then Built Portea - Serving 1 Mil Patients In 40+ Cities
NEON SHOW Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ganesh: Multinational pharma in India has completely eliminated doctor kickbacks
“Definitely the multinational pharma companies are completely away from any kind of kickbacks to doctors. That is completely stopped, even to the extent that you can't even pay a doctor to go To attend one of your training sessions in a different city or a diff…”
Meena Ganesh Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 40:41 She Sold Her Companies To ICICI & Pearson, Then Built Portea - Serving 1 Mil Patients In 40+ Cities
NEON SHOW Opinion
Ganesh: US defensive medicine drives up insurance payouts and premiums
“The doctors are practicing, especially in the U S defensive medicine, they don't want to be told, oh, you didn't do all these checks by somebody who sues them. They just throw everything at it and insurance will pay cost of insurance goes up.”
Meena Ganesh Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 49:26 She Sold Her Companies To ICICI & Pearson, Then Built Portea - Serving 1 Mil Patients In 40+ Cities
BIGDEAL Opinion
Johnson: Pharma and medical institutions do not operate out of malice
“I don't think it's because of malice. I don't think it's because pharma is some kind of evil, you know, group trying to kick over the world. They're doing their thing, and everyone is. Doctors are. Institutions are. So I don't assign any malice.”
Bryan Johnson Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 14:40 Everything We Know About Food & Medicine is Wrong (feat. @BryanJohnson)
WE LIVE TO BUILD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI will probably not replace lawyers and doctors
“A lot of people say, oh, we're going to replace lawyers and doctors. Well, probably not. I mean, sure, the AI can go through all the legal files and all of the statutes and, or all of the, you know, images of cancer versus not cancer, et cetera. There's all so…”
Sean Weisbrot Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 3:24 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Gurley: Government paid $38B in subsidies for doctors to buy EHR software
“Doctors would receive 44,000 dollars each if they bought software. Thirty-eight billion dollars.”
Bill Gurley Sep 16, 2023 ▶ 12:13 All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Andreessen: AIs will not get certified as doctors or lawyers anytime soon
“And my, the point in that essay is what Joe just said, which is like, it will be illegal to do that. Like, it's not going to happen because it's going to be illegal. Like AIs are not going to get certified as doctors and lawyers anytime soon. Like that, that I…”
Marc Andreessen Jul 18, 2023 ▶ 10:44 Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mary Waldner's celiac diagnosis came from a chiropractor, not doctors
“The diagnosis came from my chiropractor. Again, doctors never figured it out.”
Mary Waldner Jul 10, 2023 ▶ 4:53 Mary's Gone Crackers: Mary Waldner
NO PRIORS Insight
Simo: AI can summarize research for doctors who skip latest studies
“Most doctors do not read the latest research. That's something that can be solved through AI. Like, AI can do a great job summarizing the latest research that your doctor is actually current.”
Fidji Simo Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 36:42 No Priors Ep. 22 | With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
20VC Assertion Supported
Lebrun: Doctors spend an average of 49% of their time on administrative tasks
“Doctors spend on average 49% of their time doing this kind of administrative task, as opposed to caring for patients.”
Alex Lebrun Jun 19, 2023 ▶ 38:17 Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Lebrun: Three out of four doctors suffered burnout symptoms in the last year
“Three out of four doctors have suffered from burnout symptoms in the last year.”
Alex Lebrun Jun 19, 2023 ▶ 38:39 Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostaque: AI will redefine doctors' roles by providing continuous personal health data
“I think that you can change the nature of a doctor because a lot of this stuff is kind of very basic. I think, you know, you had Babylon Health and others trying that chatbot. It wasn't ready. Now you've got this. Everyone should have their own AIs looking out…”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 8:27 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shkreli: Machines will replace human doctors entirely within 30 years
“There's, if we do our jobs right, there's no such thing as a doctor in 30 years. That every operation, every prescription, every piece of medical advice you ever get from now on comes from a machine and it costs 10 cents.”
Martin Shkreli Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 1:23:08 Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dr. Johnston: Over 50% of Doctor Time Is Spent Generating Bills
“So if you look at a doctor's time, so again, doctors are only a small part of how health is determined, but they're important. You know, more than 50% of that is spent documenting in order to improve a bill and the outcome of a bill. I mean, the predominant re…”
Dr. Clay Johnston Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 19:15 This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Supported
Freckling: High Ad Rates Create Strong Incentives to Target Medical Professionals
“The ads for doctors are very premium priced. So there's an incentive to serve those ads to medical professionals.”
Dan Freckling Jan 24, 2023 ▶ 17:02 How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: The median doctor appointment is 15 minutes with minimal data
“The median healthcare experience is 15 minutes in somebody's, you know, harried schedule with a doctor that may or may not ever see you again, and has very limited data.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 26:28 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Doctors 10 years from now won't spend days diagnosing
“The technologically empowered doctor 10 years from now is highly unlikely to be spending their day doing that. They are probably going to be spending their day doing things that are actually much more important than that.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 32:02 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Doctors using AI as clinical augmentation requires no regulatory approval
“I think doctors using these new tools as an augment is something that they can just do. It doesn't require approval.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 45:24 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
a16z Prediction Held up
Andreessen: Patients presenting GPT query results will force doctors to adopt AI
“And by the way, patients using GPT, if it hasn't started, it's going to start imminently. So, so, so, so the patients are going to show up with the results of GPT queries, and the doctors are going to have to respond to that, and so they're going to end up bei…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 45:31 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Lamont: Having Doctors Bear Long-Term Financial Risk Drives Highest Healthcare Impact
“This is truly what should happen across America at every level. I was like, you really should have doctors at risk. For managing patients over the long term. That's what's going to have the most impact.”
Annie Lamont Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 32:13 Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)

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