#29 - AI Hype Meets Hospital Reality

Code & Cure · Jan 29, 2026 · 25m · transcript

What really happens when a “smart” system steps into the operating room, and collides with the messy, time-pressured reality of clinical care?

In this episode, we unpack a multi-center pilot that streamed audio and video from live surgeries to fuel safety checklists, flag cases for review, and promise rapid, actionable insight. What emerged instead was a clear-eyed lesson in the gap between aspiration and execution. Across four fault lines, the story shows where clinicians’ expectations of AI ran ahead of what today’s systems can reliably deliver, and what that means for patient safety.

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