What the next generation of doctors needs to know about AI
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
AI is helping doctors treat patients in American hospitals. But many new doctors say they haven’t been trained in how to use it. Now, Stanford University is mandating AI training for all its medical students.
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| 0:56.0 | Dr. Raja Eli Abdulnoor's patient was in the ICU and on a ventilator. |
| 1:03.0 | Abdulnur is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. |
| 1:08.7 | And all of his medical training told him that his patient had pneumonia. |
| 1:14.0 | But it wasn't clear which type. |
| 1:16.3 | Dr. Abdul-Noor believed the patient had streptococcal pneumonia, one of the most common, contagious, and serious forms of the disease. |
| 1:24.1 | If not treated swiftly enough, the prognosis was dire. Possible sepsis and lung |
| 1:30.4 | failure. And we do a test. The test suggests that this patient has streptocococle pneumonia. And |
| 1:38.0 | everybody's excited, okay, this is a positive test. We know what's the cause of the patient's breathing |
| 1:43.0 | trouble. Let's go ahead |
| 1:44.8 | and change our antibiotics so we can just target that bacteria. But then Dr. Abdulnur paused. |
| 1:51.4 | He realized that he had seen the exact same patient a few months earlier with the exact same |
| 1:57.2 | symptoms. They had seen the exact same test results and already tried treatments for |
| 2:02.8 | streptocococcal pneumonia, but the patient wasn't getting better. And so I asked myself, |
| 2:08.4 | well, could it be that today the positive test is in fact a sign of a previous infection? |
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