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✍️ When the Machine Writes Your Story: AI Scribes, Hallucinated Medicine, and the Patients Left Behind
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📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/198763613
There is a small, unassuming phone sitting on a doctor's desk. It is listening to everything.
It listens to the fear in a mother's voice as she describes her son's episodes. It listens to the careful hedging of a retired schoolteacher who doesn't want to be a bother. It listens to the pauses, the restarts, the coughing — the whole ungainly music of a human being trying to communicate the most frightening things they have ever had to say. And when the appointment ends and the door clicks shut, the phone does something remarkable: it writes it all down.
Or rather, it writes down what it thinks it heard. What it predicts should have been said.
And this, quietly, is the problem.
References
Perspective: Listening to Users when Auditing Medical AI Scribes
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