S1, E35 - Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH: Physician-as-Patient Perspective on AI in Healthcare

S1, E35 - Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH: Physician-as-Patient Perspective on AI in Healthcare

From Practical AI in Healthcare by Steven Labkoff, MD and Leon Rozenblit, JD, PhD

May 3, 2026 · 54 min

About this episode

Barry Chaiken shares his insights on AI in healthcare from the perspective of a physician and cancer survivor.

When physician Barry Chaiken was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his clinical training gave way to fear. It took a friend asking, "What are you doing?" to snap him back into doctor-mode thinking. That experience reshaped how he sees AI in healthcare. In this episode, Chaiken draws on his dual perspective as physician and two-time cancer survivor to argue that consumer health AI is failing patients, not because the models are bad, but because patients don't know how to use them. He shares a practical framework for AI-assisted patient education, makes the case for an aviation-style safety reporting system for healthcare AI, and explains why interoperability is an incentive problem, not a technology problem.

People in this episode

Hosts: Steven Labkoff, MD, Leon Rozenblit, JD, PhD

Guest: Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH

Topics covered

  • AI in healthcare
  • patient education
  • physician perspective
  • cancer survivorship
  • health technology
  • safety reporting

Keywords

  • AI
  • healthcare
  • patient education
  • cancer
  • interoperability
  • safety reporting
  • physician perspective

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI, healthcare, aviation-style safety reporting system, interoperability

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