Roupen Odabashian, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I’m a patient. You’re a patient. We’re all patients.
And let’s be honest – finding time to connect with a doctor when life gets busy is incredibly hard.
That’s why I was so excited to sit down with Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar, Chief Medical Officer at Counsel Health, to learn how they’re building the next generation of telemedicine.
Here’s what makes Counsel different:
→ Chat-based care that meets patients where they are
→ Medical AI that takes your history like a trained resident
→ Real physicians available 7 days a week (under 5 min response time!)
→ Emergency escalation protocols that monitor every conversation
→ A “Clinician Cockpit” giving doctors AI superpowers
One thing Dr. Khakhkhar said really stuck with me:
“What we want is to isolate those two to five minutes where you really need the doctor, to look the patient in the eye and say ‘this is what’s going on, this is what we need to do. Let’s abstract the rest away so we can have as many of those moments as possible.”
That’s the vision: AI as a team member, not a replacement. Amplifying what physicians do best, the human connection.”
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