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Two-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice

Ellsworth Toohey
May 18, 2026
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About 650,000 American physicians — roughly two-thirds of the country’s doctors — now use a chatbot called OpenEvidence to help decide how to treat their patients, the company told NBC News. In April alone, the service was queried during nearly 27 million clinical encounters, plus another 1.2 million users ab…

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