The Doctors’ Lounge

900 Regulatory Hurdles: Why AI Isn't Replacing Doctors Yet

August 22, 2026·56 min
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Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary With scheduled guest Dr. Geoff Manley pulled away by a medical emergency, hosts Anish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio turn the episode into a news roundtable. They open on a JAMA op-ed by Neil Khosla and Ezekiel Emanuel arguing AI will replace physicians outright, and push back on both the regulatory timeline and the incentive structure behind it — including why hospitals are slow to adopt AI tools that already exist, like AI scribes and pre-charting. From there th...

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