Shari B. Kaplan, LCSWIntegrative Mental Health

Your Doctor and AI: Collaboration, Not Competition

8 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from Shari B. Kaplan, LCSW’s YouTube video “Your Doctor and AI: Collaboration, Not Competition,” Kaplan observes that many patients now disrespect doctors because they can easily look up medical information online. She proposes a more constructive approach: patients should tell their physicians, “I looked this up online, and I’d like your perspective,” framing the information as a collaborative question rather than a challenge. Kaplan then shifts to the role of artificial intelligence, arguing that AI should augment clinicians by providing broader access to data and accelerating drug development, rather than replacing doctors. She emphasizes that AI is a tool for partnership, not a threat to the medical profession.

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People are disrespectful to doctors nowadays because they can look up something online. True. But why not go to your doctor and say, by the way, I was looking this up online and this is not to be insulting. I just want to share with you what I found and I want your perspective because that is collaboration. But I think that's the beauty of AI is that it could support the doctors in how Having more access to more information, and for the development of drugs, like that's the beauty in it. Yeah, for it to take over is a whole other story, and I think that we're starting to see that we don't need to let that happen; that we could actually use it as a collaborative tool.