physicians
5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 18, 2023 by Karan Singhal · across every show →
Everything said about physicians, oldest first
May 18, 2023 positive
Singhal: Evaluators can barely distinguish Med-PaLM 2 answers from human physicians
“One thing we're seeing with MedPOM-II as we get closer to physician-level performance on medical question answering is that it's hard to tell the difference anymore. It's hard to tell the difference between different models. It's hard to tell the difference be…”
Apr 10, 2025
Gil: Google's Med-PaLM 2 outperformed individual physicians in panel evaluations
“Where MedPalm II, where the output of the model was better than the average physician. It was basically like a health model, the Google Belt, and they would use physician panels to rate Outputs of the model versus individual physicians, and the model did bette…”
Sep 5, 2025 negative
Gil: Political culture stopped doctors from speaking candidly about obesity risks
“Political culture took over and prevented them from speaking their minds on things that were really clear on evidence. That huge impact for the patient population, yet nobody would stand up and say, actually, it's really bad that we're glorifying the fact that…”
Sep 5, 2025 positive
Nadler: OpenEvidence frequently generates patient handouts and insurance appeal letters
“Encourage physicians to use open evidence to generate patient handouts, and that's actually a very widely used secondary. It's mainly clinical report, but we have all these secondary use cases like prior authorization letters and insurance appeal letters, and …”
Dec 19, 2025 positive
Gil: Historically Slow Tech Adopters Like Doctors and Lawyers Love AI
“I think this is, by the way, super under discussed that the people who tended to be the slowest adopters of technology love AI. That's physicians, that's lawyers, that's certain accounting types. It's, you know, it's actually kind of fascinating. It's complian…”