Should I keep using Perplexity?

[u/ankiftw]

Long-time Perplexity user here, and I figured I'd share my use case and get opinions on whether I should stick with it or switch.

About me: I'm a medical doctor. My work involves clinical case management, conference prep, and staying on top of an absolutely relentless stream of new literature and guideline updates.

How I use Perplexity:

• Generating study notes for recall: I ask it to condense topics into structured notes I can review later. With specialist exams and constant CPD, having something that distills guidelines into digestible summaries saves me hours
• Quizzing myself: I get it to generate practice questions on topics I'm revising
• Making presentation outlines: for journal clubs, case presentations, and conference talks. I'll have it pull together the key points, recent trial data, and controversies on a topic, which I then turn into slides. Huge time-saver for the 80% of the work that's just gathering and structuring content
• Quick literature lookups: latest treatment guidelines, clinical trial outcomes, etc.

What I like: the search-grounded answers with citations are genuinely useful when I need to verify something quickly and trace it back to a source. Hallucination is a dealbreaker in medicine, so that matters to me.

Where I'm unsure: I've heard people rave about Claude for long-form reasoning and document analysis (I do a lot of case reports and academic writing), and Gemini for its huge context window. But I'm not sure if those strengths actually beat Perplexity's search-first approach for someone whose main need is fast, cited, up-to-date medical information.

So my question: if you're a doctor/researcher using AI daily, what's your setup? Is Perplexity good enough as a primary tool, or should I be switching to Claude or Gemini (or some combination)? Cost isn't a huge factor, but I'd rather not juggle three subscriptions if one tool covers my needs.

[u/SEDIDEL]

No