TL;DR: Please don't go to your AI platform for an answer to your health problems. You don't know what you don't know. Your medical provider should be trained to find out/explain to you what you don't know. Treatment should be personalized and capture the nuance our quirky lil human lives. A patient came to me at the outpatient physical therapy clinic with pages upon pages of her AI generated recommendations for back pain. "Do you not like cat-cow? Why do we not do it? I think I should be...

Starting my career as a fulltime physical therapist, the feedback I've received is not what I expected. The good news is: I think I am where I should be. In the first six months of this new career, I have worked with middle school athletes experiencing acute injuries, to seasoned retirees navigating chronic illness. I have had the pleasure of helping patients return to swimming or running, tennis or basketball, in a matter of weeks. I have shared the heartbreak of learning about a recent...

"Jack of all trades, master of none"--what a bummer of a statement to someone who'd like to be good at things in general. The full quote, "jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one", is lesser used and possibly more impactful in rapidly changing times. Emerging from being deep in studies, the conversation of a future in AI changes to global economies, social and environmental impact, and access to healthcare is overwhelming. Surely, the clinical reasoning...