White Pine Clinic’s AI Statement

AI, currently in its infancy, is proliferating rapidly in healthcare. We will continue to monitor its development, but our testing so far of the state-of-the art tools designed for Chinese medical practice has revealed unacceptably low standards of care. It is our opinion that AI has not yet been sufficiently vetted for deployment for a wide range of not only TCM but also mainstream medical tasks. This situation could potentially put patients at risk.

The best physicians in China are honored with the title of lao yisheng, meaning “veteran” or, more literally, “old’ doctor. This practice, which is actually regulated by law, demonstrates how greatly human practitioner experience is valued in the expert and effective practice of Chinese medicine. At White Pine Clinic, patients are treated exclusively