{"id":305273,"date":"2025-11-21T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:14:09","slug":"are-doctors-at-risk-of-ai-automation-those-who-dont-use-it-will-be-replaced-by-those-who-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305273\/","title":{"rendered":"Are doctors at risk of AI automation? &#8216;Those who don&#8217;t use it will be replaced by those who do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But will doctors be the next profession at risk from AI automation?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClinicians are not going to be replaced by technology, but those who don\u2019t use it will be replaced by those who do,\u201d Zubin Daruwalla, who oversees clinical innovation at Singapore\u2019s National University Hospital (NUH), said at the Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Yingying Gong, founder of Yidu Tech, was more optimistic about how AI and doctors will interact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>China has an aging population, with around <a aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/202410\/12\/content_WS6709cb9ac6d0868f4e8ebbda.html\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/202410\/12\/content_WS6709cb9ac6d0868f4e8ebbda.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">300 million people over the age of 60<\/a>. Hence, doctors have a heavy workload, seeing between 30 to 100 patients each day. Yidu Tech developed an AI copilot to assist doctors in their medical work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have to do much explaining,\u201d Gong said, noting that doctors \u201cvery much welcomed\u201d the help.<\/p>\n<p>AI diagnosis<\/p>\n<p>AI can also help medical professional diagnose ailments in non-invasive ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[These AI tools] can help you detect [lung] cancer early, and prevent it from deteriorating to stage three or stage four,\u201d Chin Keat Chyuan, president and managing director of KPJ Healthcare Berhad, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And AI in healthcare is only effective if medical professionals are properly trained to use them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get implemented because we don\u2019t spend enough time training [doctors to] use it, as it takes away time from patients,\u201d Daruwalla, who is also a clinician, said. \u201cThen, people get frustrated and fed up [with the technology] and revert back to their old ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And doctors can rest easy in the knowledge that there\u2019s still nuances in patient care that only doctors can manage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s evidence, and computers are really good at that. But there\u2019s also eminence or experience, where you have to take into consideration culture and context,\u201d Daruwalla said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone has told me that they choose hospitals because of ChatGPT or DeepSeek,\u201d said Chin, of KPJ, \u201cbut they always refer to the clinicians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But will doctors be the next profession at risk from AI automation? \u201cClinicians are not going to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[24084,155615,97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-305273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-always-free","9":"tag-fortune-innovation-forum","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}