New medical technology presents hospitals with a prisoner’s dilemma The hidden cost of how we train doctors

https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/02/hospitals-robots-training-prisoners-dilemma/ By James L. Whiteside and Dmitry TuminJan. 2, 2026 Whiteside serves as the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine. Tumin serves as research professor of pediatrics at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine.