RICHARD LOW, MD | YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ’76 | OCTOBER 3, 2026
A PRESENTATION TO THE ASSOCIATION OF YALE ALUMNI IN MEDICINE
Will AI Replace the Doctor—or Set the Doctor Free?
Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Judgment, and the Future of Medicine
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Dr. Richard Low's talk at the Yale School of Medicine discusses the administrative burden, ambient scribes, and the future of healthcare.
Key Discussion Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction
- 08:25 AI replacing doctors is the wrong question
- 15:34 Doctors forced to adapt to computers
- 17:03 A transcript isn't a medical history
- 28:03 Why ambient scribes aren't enough
- 35:30 Let machines handle administrative burdens
- 39:08 AI may restore the art of medicine
- 47:56 Physician ownership of intellectual property
Can artificial intelligence help restore the art of medicine?
Presented at the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine gathering, October 3, 2026.
In this talk at Yale School of Medicine, Richard Low, MD, founder of Praxis EMR and a Yale alumnus, explores what AI must understand beyond the words spoken in an examination room: the physician’s reasoning, experience, and knowledge of the patient. Drawing on a lifetime in medicine and technology, he presents a vision of AI that adapts to the physician’s mind, reduces the burden of documentation, and gives doctors more freedom to think, connect, and care.
Read the complete presentation transcript (PDF): Will AI Replace Doctors—or Restore Medicine? (PDF) — Includes audience questions and discussion.
Can an EMR actually think the way a physician thinks?
The ideas discussed in this Yale presentation are more than theoretical.
Dr. Low has spent decades developing a different approach to medical software—one designed to adapt to the physician's clinical reasoning rather than force the physician to adapt to the computer.
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