Can AI Support Care Without Leading It?

Because before any technology, there is always the person living with their own thoughts and experiences.

Medicine is practiced differently around the world, but the design of the human being is universal.

I think we also share a common need: the search for clarity within the mind.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), created by the World Health Organization, gives doctors a shared structure, a common language to describe illness.

Just as the ICD-11 helps unify language among doctors, AI helps unify understanding through data.

AI in medicine can help to see patterns in a patient’s story that might otherwise take time.
AI can even help to explain what those patterns might mean, but it still depends on the human mind to recognize their truth.

So yes, I think AI does help bring clarity.

But true clarity doesn’t come from technology alone.

The goal of AI is not to demand a kind of clarity a person cannot understand within themselves.
It is to support the clarity that already exists, without overtaking or distorting it.

That is why, in many healthcare systems, shared decision-making is encouraged; the patient has a real voice in their care plan.

When a person’s mind is respected first, technology can truly support the decision-making process.

At its best, I think patient care becomes partly guided by artificial intelligence but stays grounded in emotional intelligence, informed by how a doctor tries to understand the person in front of them.