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Dr. Shiny Mathewkutty, a cardiologist with Mercy Cardiology Clinic in Cedar Rapids, has noticed a shift in how her patients are absorbing the information she shares with them.

“I’ll sit down with the patient, I’ll review all the results with them … then they’ll go home, they’ll input all that information to ChatGPT and then call me back with the ChatGPT analysis,” Mathewkutty said, noting that ChatGPT is not used by health care professionals because it is not secure.

“So, care is changing, because the questions that we’re getting are very different from the questions that we got a year ago, and patients are understanding their disease process better,” Mathewkutty said. “They’re trying to be m

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