Psychedelics, AI, and more at TEDMED Boston 

The 2020 TEDMED conference, which brings together experts to share big ideas in health and medicine, is currently being held in Boston and your Morning Rounds writer had a front row seat to many of yesterday's events. Here's some of what I heard: 

• Frederick Streeter Barrett, a researcher at Johns Hopkins' Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, on the use of psychedelic drugs like "magic mushrooms" in medicine: "We have to be rightfully skeptical" of these drugs being sold as a panacea. "Administered to the right people under the right conditions, psychedelics can save lives."
• Cheryl Holder, an internist at Florida International University, on physicians' role in climate change: "If there's going to be a medical response to climate change, it's because we, the clinicians, make some noise."   
• Suchi Saria, a computational biologist at Johns Hopkins University, on clinicians' fear of being replaced by AI: "Think of it like Spiderman's suit: It makes you stronger, and without you, it's useless."