AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
Physician AI use went from 38% to 81% in three years, and 88% of the same doctors now report concern about losing clinical skill. This piece separates the benchmark results from the clinical ones: why Microsoft’s 85.5% versus 20% comparison barred its physicians from colleagues and textbooks, what the Lancet colonoscopy deskilling study actually found, how much time ambient scribes really save, what UK regulators decided about AI scribes in July 2026, and which parts of clinical work no deployed system touches.