It is 2:47 AM. You are the only physician on a cruise ship in the South Pacific. A patient presents with acute chest pain and a blood pressure of 88/54. You open a clinical AI tool and ask for help. Within seconds, it generates a confident, detailed response.
The AI recommended a drug that was not on board.
This book is written for clinicians who are already using AI in their practice, or who soon will be, and who need to understand what these systems actually do before relying on them for patient care. Not the marketing version. Not the computer science version. The clinical version.
Dr. Javier Rosas practices medicine 1,000 miles from the nearest hospital as a ship physician for Royal Caribbean International. He also trains and evaluates medical AI systems across multiple platforms. That dual perspective, practicing at the extreme edge of medicine while building the tools meant to support it, shapes every chapter.
AI Literacy for Clinicians breaks down how large language models work, why they fail, and what practicing physicians need to know to use them safely. No jargon. No hype. Just the clinical clarity you would expect from a colleague who has tested these tools where the margin for error is zero.
