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Notes & documentation

Draft the operative note, then edit it

After a long case I still have to write a clear, complete operative note from scratch.

Small simulated evaluation De-identified text only Individual access available

Source check: 2026-11-11 · Physician review: not yet recorded

The workflow

  1. For a first test, use fictional or appropriately de-identified content. For identifiable clinical records, use a workspace covered by your organization’s patient-data agreement; removing names alone is insufficient.
  2. Write the key steps of the procedure in your own words, with no patient identifiers.
  3. Ask the AI to turn them into a draft in your usual operative note layout.
  4. Add anything it left out and delete anything it padded or invented.
  5. Paste the edited text into the chart and add patient details only there, never in the chatbot.
  6. Sign only after you have read every line.

Tools and cost

USD unless stated otherwise. Billing periods and eligibility matter. A tool listed here was not necessarily tested in the cited study.

ChatGPT
$0 · Free plan; optional paid plans · Price source
OpenAI's general-purpose AI chat assistant (the regular version, not ChatGPT for Clinicians).

Individual self-service
Consumer Free is separate from the BAA-eligible clinician workspace.

What the evidence supports

Ten blinded ENT surgeons rated 20 notes for five public procedures. They approved 79% of surgeon-plus-AI notes as written versus 23% of AI-only notes.

Primary study abstract; full-text details not independently verified · Read the source ↗

Where it goes wrong

This was a small simulated documentation evaluation, not a trial in live surgery. A suggested current tool is not necessarily the studied model. Confirm every procedure detail yourself.

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