Opinion: It looks like your doctor and talks like your doctor. But it’s not your doctor
OpinionFirst Opinion It looks like your doctor and talks like your doctor. But it’s not your doctor Deepfakes raise a basic question: What, and whom, can patients trust? Manage alerts for this article Email this article Share this article Adobe By Henry BairJuly 14, 2026 Bair is a resident physician at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and a physician-writer.
- ▪OpinionFirst Opinion It looks like your doctor and talks like your doctor.
- ▪But it’s not your doctor Deepfakes raise a basic question: What, and whom, can patients trust?
- ▪Manage alerts for this article Email this article Share this article Adobe By Henry BairJuly 14, 2026 Bair is a resident physician at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and a physician-writer.
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OpinionFirst Opinion It looks like your doctor and talks like your doctor. But it’s not your doctor Deepfakes raise a basic question: What, and whom, can patients trust? Manage alerts for this article Email this article Share this article Adobe By Henry BairJuly 14, 2026 Bair is a resident physician at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and a physician-writer. Imagine a patient who arrives at her doctor’s clinic furious. She shows her doctor a video of him — white coat, plausible exam room, familiar cadence — endorsing an over-the-counter hormone supplement for menopausal symptoms, dismissing standard therapies as “pharma scams,” and offering a discount code. But the physician never recorded that message.
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