Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers.
By Dhruv Khullar
December 19, 2025 – Not long ago, I cared for a middle-aged man I’ll call Jim, who was generally healthy but had recently started to feel sluggish. One of his friends told him to try a hormone supplement. After Jim saw on social media that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Trump Administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, had endorsed supplements as a part of an “anti-aging” regimen, he ordered one from a telehealth company. A few months later, he noticed swelling and pain in his calf. ChatGPT warned him that he might have a blood clot. I met Jim for the first time in the emergency room. An ultrasound revealed a blockage in a leg vein, which could cause serious problems if it travelled to his lungs. He stopped the supplement and started a blood thinner.
SOURCE: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-role-of-doctors-is-changing-forever
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