Could AI-drafted pathology reports become something physicians actively want to use—as some surgeons came to love da Vinci robotics?
This white paper explores that possibility through surgeons’ experiences describing their enjoyment of robotic surgery.
Find the 7-page cloud white paper HERE.
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I also draw two personal examples - how the technology of literature searches has massively changed since 1985, and how their is a new. also massively different kind of hybrid writing between author and AI (used in this white paper).
Of those two personal experiences, adoption and integration have taken opposite journeys. Literature searching became an unnoticed part of my work flow - like opening a Coke.* And opposite that, human-AI-writing has become a highly engaging, fascinating, novel combination of AI and author, one I find fascinating and intriguing. (And more analogous to robotic surgery or enjoying being a airplane pilot).
So: from urologists talking about their use of robotics to the transition from costly MEDLINE searches to everyday PubMed access, and my own absorbing partnership with AI—including writing this essay. As I've raised before, for the topic of automated first draft pathology reports, we also ask whether pathology’s reliance on locally validated RUO applications favors small tools over comprehensive clinical systems. Widespread adoption may require both a scalable foundation of clinical evidence and a way of working that pathologists find fluent, empowering, and rewarding.
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* I wrote about this in July.
