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Today, AI is simultaneously a religion and an irritant: some hope that humanity has gotten its hands on a tool for explosive development; for others, the very disclaimer “made by artificial intelligence” already causes irritation. People worry that LLM will take jobs away from millions and, in the longer run, will become a superintelligence that will enslave humanity. And more and more often we hear that multibillion-dollar infusions into the industry are inflating a bubble that will soon burst.

Doctorina has arrived on Telegram — and it looks like one of the first notable cases of a specialized medical LLM stepping out of the familiar app ecosystem and into an everyday messenger. The result is that an AI consultation stops feeling like a “separate digital product” and becomes a normal chat: open the dialogue, get help. For the digital health market, this is a meaningful shift in format, not just another channel launch. But can messengers become a new mass entry point for AI-powered medicine? Will the bet on an environment where the audience already lives and communicates pay…

In 2025, millions of people share the same experience: you ask an AI a perfectly reasonable question – and in response you either get confident nonsense or a polite refusal that reads like a lazy “please go away”. At the same time, the very same AI writes code brilliantly, helps draft contracts, and turns forty-page reports into summaries in seconds.