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Take a deeper dive into our peer-reviewed emergency medicine content with the EMplify podcast. Join hosts Sam Ashoo, MD and T.R. Eckler, MD for educational, conversational reviews of current evidence guaranteed to help you make your best clinical decisions. Each high-yield episode gives you practical, time-tested guidance from practicing emergency medicine clinicians and subject-matter experts. Listen and learn!
Medical AI with Jack Teitel
In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD interviews Jack Teitel on the topic of AI in medicine.
- Introduction & Welcome — 0:17
- Jack’s Background in Healthcare AI — 0:58
- Brief History of AI — 3:57
- The “Perfect Storm” That Created Modern AI — 5:48
- From General to Specialized: Fine-Tuning AI for Medicine — 7:04
- LLM Confidence & the Sycophancy Problem — 13:01
- The Benchmark Problem — 14:25
- Building Your Own Personal AI Benchmark — 17:44
- Can You “Turn Off” AI Sycophancy? — 20:00
- RAG Systems & How Specialty AI Tools Work — 22:09
- Choosing the Right AI Tool for Clinical Use — 26:18
- Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail in Deployment— 28:10
- How to Ask AI Questions Well (Prompt Quality) — 31:25
- Knowledge Base Currency & Sam’s Drug Withdrawal Test — 35:06
- Closing & Contact Info — 37:12
For more about Jack Teitel – Title-AI.com
Emergency Medicine Residents, get your free subscription by writing resident@ebmedicine.net

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD interviews Jack Teitel on the topic of AI in medicine.
- Introduction & Welcome — 0:17
- Jack’s Background in Healthcare AI — 0:58
- Brief History of AI — 3:57
- The “Perfect Storm” That Created Modern AI — 5:48
- From General to Specialized: Fine-Tuning AI for Medicine — 7:04
- LLM Confidence & the Sycophancy Problem — 13:01
- The Benchmark Problem — 14:25
- Building Your Own Personal AI Benchmark — 17:44
- Can You “Turn Off” AI Sycophancy? — 20:00
- RAG Systems & How Specialty AI Tools Work — 22:09
- Choosing the Right AI Tool for Clinical Use — 26:18
- Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail in Deployment— 28:10
- How to Ask AI Questions Well (Prompt Quality) — 31:25
- Knowledge Base Currency & Sam’s Drug Withdrawal Test — 35:06
- Closing & Contact Info — 37:12
For more about Jack Teitel – Title-AI.com
✨ Emergency Medicine Residents, get your free subscription by writing resident@ebmedicine.net

Sam Ashoo, MD, FACEP, is board certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics. He serves as EB Medicine’s editor-in-chief of interactive clinical pathways and FOAMEd blog, and host of EB Medicine’s EMplify podcast. Follow him below for more…

