Health Care & Hospital Law,
Administrative/Regulatory
Sep. 11, 2025
SB 53 and the human touch: don't let AI outsource compassion
SB 53 underscores that while AI can support doctors, it cannot replace the human presence, judgment and empathy at the core of medical care.
Elana R. Levine
Trial Attorney
AlderLaw, P.C.
She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Southwestern Law School. Licensed since 2004, Levine has devoted her practice to employment and consumer law, including individual, representative and class litigation in state and federal courts.
"What do you want me to say?" he asked. "I'm wrong, you're right? I'll go out in the back and shoot all of my employees?"
That was my doctor's response -- after decades under his care -- when I asked why I had been so thoroughly dismissed, ignored, and ultimately abandoned during one of the most terrifying periods of my life.
"No, I want you to simply apologize and tell me that while you cannot go...
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