Opinion: Patients are consulting AI. Doctors should, too

Ask most physicians today, and they’ll describe some version of this scene: In the middle of an appointment, a patient says, “I asked ChatGPT about the treatment you recommended.”

A few years ago, doctors might have bristled. Today, this is the new reality. And yet, it’s exactly what tens of thousands of medical students and residents applying to programs this fall have been forbidden to do.