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Rusha Modi

Rusha Modi

Board-certified gastroenterologist and physician-entrepreneur (Brown MD, Harvard MPH), founder of Volta and writer on AI and the future of medicine in Los Angeles.

Sep 23, 2026

15:30
So I want to speak more about that because you have an interesting take on the rise of these influencers and how medical information is spread.
15:40
Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably the central question that I hear from clinicians that when I talk to them privately, when I interact with them online that I get from patients, family members, I don't think there's a subtle answer.
15:52
I think anybody that has complete ontological certainty about how this plays out into the terms of like, you know, who are the new guardians of health information and what is the role of the professional? And this is, I think overstating it.
16:06
What I can say based on what I'm seeing now, would be a couple points.
16:10
Number one, I think the technology underlying large language models is categorically different than the other examples you mentioned, like Dr. Google, Dr. Facebook, Dr.
16:20
Social Media.
16:22
Those were categorically of a different model.

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32:14
What can we do to use this technology, to use it to help us so that we have a long lasting career in medicine?

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