06/01/2026
AI is everywhere these days, but what could it actually mean for healthcare?
Will it replace doctors? Improve patient care? Help us make better decisions?
In the latest issue of , Dr. Russell McKenna explores what AI could realistically become in healthcare and how physicians are already beginning to use it - not as a replacement for human expertise, but as a tool to help organize information, ask better questions, and communicate more effectively.
Dr. McKenna approaches AI the same way many physicians eventually may: as a support tool that enhances thoughtful clinical judgment rather than replacing it.
Dr. McKenna is a pediatric physician and founder of Ask YADAYADA, an AI-assisted healthcare initiative focused on improving clinical questioning and information gathering in non-emergent care. He has spent thousands of hours refining physician-guided AI workflows and applying AI-assisted questioning approaches across thousands of patient encounters.
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