Across the United Kingdom, a quiet transformation is underway in the examination room: artificial intelligence now listens as doctors and patients speak, converting human encounter into clinical record. A review of 27 studies by researchers at the University of Edinburgh reveals that what these systems capture — words — is only a fraction of what medicine requires, and that the gap between transcript and truth may fall heaviest on those already least heard. In the long arc of healthcare's relationship with technology, this moment asks an old question anew: when we automate the act of listening
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