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Men make machines to perform delicate tasks to support their endeavor. Artificial intelligence (AI) a creation of human mind is another venture that is taken as a tool to help diagnosis and get results in time. This task is fully developed to interpret images are fed to the machine to come out with a result in time. AI may help to reduce strain on resources and give time for more patient-physician interaction. Machine intelligence is a support for the human touch and treatment of a practicing physician. It cannot replace humaneness of a doctor and the comfort a patient gets from the physician through interaction and reassurance. The article focuses on the diagnostic reasoning of AI over human. Many a time the clinical acumen of the physician plays a vital role in deciding how to treat a patient not the condition. Diagnostic accuracy and timely results may save a critical patient. It will not replace the master who feeds the data and decides what action to be taken based on the data made available. Human in the physician is what a patient looks for in a mechanized world. With all the gadgets at hand the diagnosis and treatment may improve but many a time an accurate diagnosis does guarantee better outcome. The physician's human touch and spiritual interaction makes medicine holistic.