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Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672
18•ahonhn•6d ago

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newsomix9xl•6d ago
Not only did the AI apparently hallucinate psilocybin consumption, but the doctor then hallucinated internal bleeding as a risk, which is not a known risk of such mushrooms.

But this seems a bit click baity.

You can challenge your medical record, and presumably an AI transcription service would be in there. Unless .au is special in that way.

Herodotus38•11m ago
The doctor probably didn’t even read it and there’s a good chance the AI program wrote the bit about bleeding too. Source: am physician who has tried these programs and doesn’t use them.
superkuh•8m ago
A friend recently had a drug test added to their blood draw for an unrelated health check at a hospital. When she questioned the nurse about it turned out the doctors make notes that are transcribed by AI. And in this case the AI had mistakenly transcribed that she was on fentanyl patches.

"the nurse who was trying to be very nice said in a less sweet tone that the doctor is supposed to review the notes so this does not happen. And that she is very glad I caught it and the doctor will be glad too. I do not know if this was something Very Serious or an ongoing problem or what."

Given this threads story is the second incident of this I've heard in a week it seems like it is a common error with very serious consequences.

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Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672
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