Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Apr 16, 2025

"Providers are pushed to spend less time caring for each patient as health systems move to reduce costs and increase revenue under the technological principle of maximal efficiency and output. But medicine was never intended to be another industrial complex."

This essay is beautiful and powerful.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/ai-scribes-artificial-intelligence-medicine-note-writing-physician-patient-relationship/

No, I don’t want an AI scribe to write my pulmonologist’s note

“I don’t think an algorithm can re-create the specifically human experiences” of penning a physician note that will be meaningful and useful to the patient, writes Aliaa Barakat.

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Show threadChristopher SandbergApr 17, 2025
@emilymbender That's why we have a universal health care system up here in Canada as well as every other included in the western democracies other than the United States.
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Apr 17, 2025
@Krisjon yes thank you for rubbing it in.
Show threadChristopher SandbergApr 17, 2025
@emilymbender My pleasure LoL 😁
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Apr 17, 2025
@Krisjon and congrats to you personally for bringing that about. Surely now that I have been informed I can make sure it happens here too.
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
@Krisjon oh and don't assume that you are safe from bad automation in medical settings. Austerity measures can send even public systems down these paths.
Apr 17, 2025 at 3:11amWeb
Show threadChristopher SandbergApr 17, 2025
@emilymbender I am from Saskatchewan Canada and in recent years I couldn't believe the stupidity going on in Saskatchewan health in recent years that never happened before.