ChatGPT in medicine: a help or a danger?

If one tries to ask ChatGPT how much, if at all, it thinks it is able to help doctors, its answer is somewhat disarming: 'Yes, as a virtual assistant, I can help doctors in different ways,' says the chatbot. ChatGPT's answer fits perfectly into the ongoing debate in recent weeks about the increasingly predominant role of artificial intelligence chatbots in everyday life and how they will strongly impact our work. Like all professions in the world, from the Engineer to the Journalist, the Doctor will not be excluded from this debate and will have to come to terms with the natural evolution of his profession. We will not deal here with the ethical and moral issue of AI's ability to diagnose illnesses and write prescriptions for patients, but there is one objective fact: ChatGPT has'passed the medical exam', so – from the point of view of simple medical notions (and certainly not of the medical profession, which is quite a different matter!) – it would not have much to envy to a medical student who is about to take the professional licensing exam. Thus, however curious and at times'disturbing' it may seem that an AI is able to answer medical questions and diagnoses, we must nevertheless bear in mind that Medicine evolves through novelties, making its own discoveries and inventions that characterize each century.