#61 - Congrats, You Added A Human in the Loop. Now What?

Code & Cure · Sep 10, 2026 · 22m · transcript

“Put a human in the loop” sounds like common sense. But when we actually look at how medical AI shows up in busy clinical workflows, that slogan can become a liability. We unpack why oversight often turns into a checkbox, how responsibility quietly shifts onto the clinician, and why that does not equal healthcare AI safety.

We dig into automation bias with a concrete example from clinical decision support: when recommendations are correct, errors drop, but when recommendations are wrong, people still accept them and errors rise. That dynamic shows up everywhere from e-prescribing to EKG…