{"product_id":"practicingintheageofai","title":"Practicing in the Age of AI: Essays on Medicine, Meaning, and Machines","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAI is already in the exam room. Are you ready?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence has entered clinical practice — quietly, rapidly, and with consequences no physician fully anticipated. It sits behind the documentation tools that auto-populate your notes, the imaging algorithms flagging findings before you do, the insurance decision engines that approve or deny your orders. Medicine has changed. The question is whether physicians will shape that change — or simply adapt to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePracticing in the Age of AI: Essays on Medicine, Meaning, and Machines\u003c\/i\u003e, physician leader and essayist Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, CPE, DFAAPL, takes readers inside the transformation — not as a technologist, futurist, or alarmist, but as a clinician who has watched AI reshape the very fabric of medical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a guide to the best AI tools. It's a framework for thinking about what AI means for the physicians who use them — their clinical reasoning, their documentation, their professional identity, and their accountability to patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross 36 essays organized into four sections, Lazarus examines:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHow AI is transforming medical writing, documentation, and clinical language — and what gets lost in translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhy physicians risk becoming editors of machine-generated work they didn't create and aren't sure they should sign.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhere AI promises efficiency but delivers automation bias, hallucinated documentation, and algorithmic inequity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhat physician leaders must demand from AI governance, FDA oversight, prior authorization systems, and health system design.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHow to preserve clinical judgment, moral responsibility, and the human core of medicine in a machine-assisted world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith intellectual range, narrative skill, and the balanced skepticism of a seasoned clinician, Lazarus occupies the nuanced middle ground: neither dismissing AI's promise nor surrendering to its hype. His essays give physicians the language and conceptual tools to participate in AI conversations with precision, lead institutional decision-making with confidence, and protect what patients need most — a physician who still thinks, judges, and cares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are a practicing clinician encountering AI in daily workflow, a physician executive navigating technology adoption, or a medical educator preparing the next generation, this book offers the reflective framework today's physicians need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eArthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, CPE, DFAAPL\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, CPE, DFAAPL, is a physician leader, writer, and editor with extensive experience in psychiatry, healthcare administration, and medical publishing. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a distinguished fellow of the American Association for Physician Leadership. Lazarus has contributed widely to peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, and books on physician leadership, clinical practice, and healthcare policy. He brings to this work both the clinical perspective of a practicing physician and the analytical lens of a physician executive who has witnessed AI's arrival at the front lines of care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote to Readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: The Writing Mind Meets the Machine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 1. What Does the \"A\" in AI Stand For — Artificial or Augmented? The Case of Medical Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 2. Tools, Applications, and Ethical Considerations in AI-Assisted Medical and Scientific Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 3. The Promise and Peril of AI Scribes\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 4. When AI Writes the Therapy Note, the Patient's Story Can Disappear\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 5. Why the Silence? Reflections on the Vanishing Physician Commentariat\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 6. When Is a Joke Not a Joke? Medicine, Social Media, and the Return of the Physician Commentariat\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 7. The Compression of Language by AI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: Workflow, Practice, and the Clinician's Role\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 8. The Algorithm in the Interview: When AI Becomes the Recruiter\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 9. Where Are the Guardrails?\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 10. Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do: Implications of the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute for Medical Practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 11. The AI Health Arms Race Has Begun. What Comes After Copilot Health?\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 12. Stop Looking for the Best AI Tool\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 13. Physicians' Adoption and Use of AI: From Curiosity to Clinical Practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 14. Garbage In, Garbage Out: How to Feed the Machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 15. When Conversation Becomes Workflow\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 16. The Physician as AI Editor\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 17. Dr. Seuss, AI, and Portents for Medical Learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 18. Can AI Really Shorten Medical School?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: Trust, Authority, and the Human Stakes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 19. AI Can Read the Chart Nobody Wants to Touch\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 20. What's Leadership Got to Do with It?\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 21. When Warmth Becomes a Template\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 22. Creativity in the Age of Medical AI\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 23. When the Manuscript Has a Chatbot in the Background\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 24. A Chatbot Is Not a Therapist\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 25. At Silicon Valley Speed: The FDA's AI Gamble and the Future of Clinical Judgment\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 26. What Medicine Can Learn from Waymo: A Case for Boring, Accountable AI\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 27. When Algorithms Decide: AI and the Future of Prior Authorization\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 28. Pseudologia Algorithmica: When AI Hallucinates and Humans Stop Checking\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 29. When the Doctor on Your Screen Isn't Real: Deepfakes, Fraud, and the Erosion of Medical Trust\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 30. Cover Me: Medicine's New Hiring Crisis\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 31. Grand Rounds on Replacing Physicians: A Satire of Doctors, Chatbots, and the Fight for Natural Intelligence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IV: Systems, Policy, and the Future of Medicine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 32. Is AI Failing Healthcare, or Is Healthcare Failing AI?\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 33. Can AI Fix a Broken Healthcare System?\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 34. Autoland Is Not a Diagnosis: Rethinking the Aviation Metaphor for AI in Medicine\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 35. When the Machine Enters the Nursing Station: AI, Invisible Labor, and the Future of Doctor–Nurse Collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEssay 36. AI: Past, Present, and Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfterword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AAPL SHOPIFY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46865789255817,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/5578\/3490\/files\/PracticingAI-Shopify.png?v=1781108909","url":"https:\/\/shop.physicianleaders.org\/products\/practicingintheageofai","provider":"AAPL Shopify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}