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I think if a real human doctor completely fabricated a drug usage history for one of their patients, that would also be news.

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> I think if a real human doctor completely fabricated a drug usage history for one of their patients, that would also be news.

This happens every single day and is effectively never reported. For far more nefarious reasons than a simple scribing error.

Drug seeking behavior enters notes all the time without much evidence and based entirely on a random doctor's (or even a triage nurse) hunch. A significant portion of those notes are outright false and incorrect. Once that is on your file and in a given medical system, you are marked for life.

They said drug usage, not drug seeking.

Exactly.

When doctors make mistakes, they can be held accountable -- their malpractice insurance rates go up, their licenses are subject to suspension or revocation, they can go to jail (eg if they are pill mills) or they/the practice get a bad review.

When AI makes mistakes, what happens? How is it held accountable?

Doctors make mistakes pretty much non-stop, and they are rarely held accountable because the system as a whole works OK. AI makes less mistakes than the doctors do (I read a lot of medical notes).

fnord

You know they'd have to be your roommate for that to amount to a positive test, right? They, correctly, assumed that your excuse for having a cannabis-user's dosage of cannabis in you is that you are a cannabis user, not because your neighbor two houses away smokes it.

What the ever living fuck gave you the idea that they even tested me, bro? And why would they? And why would I be positive? Please fuck off with your shitty unfounded accusations!

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