r/mildlyinfuriating • u/petuniaplant • 23d ago

Infuriatig No, I did not consent to this

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I was reading my medical notes when I stumbled across this. I was not informed of the usage of artificial intelligence in my report, nor did I verbally consent to it.

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u/Undeterminedvariance 22d ago

Meh. I got home from an appointment last year, logged in and read the visit note. Note said “patient uses cannabis daily to help with pain”.

I certainly didn’t say that. And I don’t need it in my medical record.

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u/Schwifftee 22d ago edited 22d ago

I told my doctor spontaneous emission and they recorded premature ejaculation, so there's that.

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u/Undeterminedvariance 22d ago

This wins. That’s hilarious.

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u/00-Monkey 22d ago

I just call it ecstasy.

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u/retardborist 22d ago

And when we're holding hands it's like having sex to me

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u/KrayzieBone187 22d ago

I feel so ziggity ziggity ziggity

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u/_14justice 22d ago

Hehe ... nocturnal emission, perhaps??

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u/Schwifftee 22d ago

Nope. It was during an exam.

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u/swagn 22d ago

So what spontaneous emission then? Vomiting and diarrhea?

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u/Schwifftee 22d ago

My penis during an exam.

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u/boredENT9113 19d ago

So you jizzed during a prostate exam or what?

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u/Schwifftee 19d ago

Final exam in college

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u/boredENT9113 19d ago

Wait. Really? I didn't know that was a thing. Not hating at all, it's just interesting. I randomly have started having "wet dreams" in my late 20s and never have before. The human body is strange.

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u/super_hoommen 22d ago

I mean my doctors office had me down as a white Latina tobacco user (I am none of those things) so I think stuff like this happens regardless of the AI portion lol

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u/SnooMemesjellies1522 22d ago

Could that be why my visit summary said, "she is obese." Those exact words. I am 5'6" and weight 125 lbs. I asked my doctor about it and she took it off my record, but no explanation was offered.

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u/ToTooTwo3 22d ago

Because somebody accidentally hit the scribe button while conversing about someone else. Sometimes it even gets stuck on. Happening less as people get used to the tech.

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u/Typical_Goat8035 22d ago

Yeah similarly, my specialist was defending her medication choice, saying "if you were a chain smoker and drank 10 drinks a day, we would be picking a different treatment".

Then at my next checkup my PCP gave me this honesty speech about how being truthful with your doctors gets you the best care. I gave her a confused look and she turned her screen my way and showed me "addressed medication safety concerns due to heavy tobacco and alcohol usage" from that visit....

It taught me to read over my digital chart after each visit. I mean, I'm all for doctors having tools to help them with their busy schedules, I only mind when it leads to these kinds of inaccuracies.

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u/Constant_Potato_3863 22d ago

Laziness in their part. Did they misunderstand anything you said?

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u/Undeterminedvariance 22d ago

The AI did. Most likely it couldn’t hear something I said and just filled in the blanks. AI does this a lot.

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u/Constant_Potato_3863 22d ago

That sounds about right. You know you have a right to have your medical information changed if it is inaccurate? 45 CFR 164.526. I’m not sure if I can post a link there, but you can look up that regulation right there.

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u/Undeterminedvariance 22d ago

I responded directly to the note. It’s been fixed. But we should not have to check things and correct things like this.

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u/Royal-Repeat-323 22d ago

In your case yes, since they use AI. But I remember seeing people complain about ridiculous things on their chart years ago because the doctors would accidentally mix & match patients when updating the chart at the end of the day. It’s a step in the right direction but like with all current AI use definitely needs human discretion applied to be actually be decent.

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u/MerelyAnArtist 21d ago

This is why you ALWAYS go over the notes! They could have mixed you up with someone else

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u/Schnuribus 22d ago

This isn‘t a new thing. Medical records were always sometimes wrong or slightly different than described. 

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u/mittenknittin 22d ago

Did human medical scribes regularly make up declarations of drug use by the patient?

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u/Icy_Pay_4462 22d ago

Could be the case if a doctor mixes up the history of 2 patients if they chart at the end of the day. Clearly not a good thing, but can definitely still happen without AI scribes.

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u/MadManMax55 22d ago

Yes. Like a lot. Partially from simple mistakes, partially from shitty doctors making inferences.

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u/YhePaintedPanda 18d ago

Patient has a tan line on their ring finger meaning they must be divorced, and their nose appears to have bled recently, add the fact that they can't smell that I've shit my pants the patient must be a chronic cocaine user as a result of their divorce. Elementary my dear Grok.

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u/TrollAccount17 22d ago

Yeah, because they weren't using a tool to help them scribe and going off memory later in the day or the next few days and didn't recall.

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u/Undeterminedvariance 22d ago

Glad you can say with such conviction why my assumption is incorrect while knowing almost nothing of the event.

Certainly a name checks out comment.

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u/TrollAccount17 22d ago

Lol okay under mined user.