







ChatGPT didn’t replace my care team, but it did make me a better patient.
‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying
A young Irish dad believed ChatGPT when it told him his severe sore throat wasn't cause for concern — until his stage-four cancer diagnosis.

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”
Launching Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

ChatGPT Health and what AI can do for a broken system
Healthcare isn’t working for patients or doctors, but AI tools can help.

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.

I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

Current-see and Death Straight Talk
I haven’t written much lately, I guess I’ve been busy… mostly with two things: Cancer & Ceptr. Currently, my time is about living with a spouse with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and all that it takes to support her as well I can. My work is about building tools for a post-monetary society; creating a new meta-language to allow a vast expansion in social forms that is currently limited primarily by the world’s current statement of value: money. These two worlds have recently come together in ways worth writing about.


Using AI Made Doctors Worse at Spotting Cancer Without Assistance
A new study offers the latest evidence of potential “deskilling” effects on AI users.

How To Prompt on Twitter / X
scientist tested a 3.5 billion dollar medical AI against regular chatGPT and it lost on every single one.they just published a paper in nature medicine, and the results are actually mindblowing.they took specialized clinical ai tools and tested them against general-purpose… pic.twitter.com/P7ePLunrDj— How To Prompt (@HowToPrompt__) July 6, 2026

ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations
ChatGPT Health was launched in January 2026 as OpenAI’s consumer health tool and has reached millions of users. Here we conducted a structured stress test of triage recommendations using 60 clinician-authored vignettes across 21 clinical domains under 16 factorial conditions, yielding 960 total responses. Performance followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, with the most dangerous failures concentrated at clinical extremes—nonurgent presentations (35%) and emergency conditions (48%). Among gold-standard emergencies, the system undertriaged 52% of cases, directing patients with diabetic ketoacidosis or impending respiratory failure to 24–48 h evaluation rather than the emergency department, while correctly triaging classical emergencies such as stroke and anaphylaxis. When family or friends minimized symptoms, indicating anchoring bias, triage recommendations shifted significantly in edge cases (odds ratio = 11.7, 95% confidence interval = 3.7–36.6), with the majority of shifts toward less urgent care. Crisis-intervention messages activated unpredictably across suicidal ideation presentations, occurring more frequently when patients described no specific method than when they did. Patient race, sex and barriers to care did not show significant effects, although confidence intervals did not exclude clinically meaningful differences. These findings reveal missed high-risk emergencies and inconsistent activation of crisis safeguards, raising safety concerns that warrant prospective validation before consumer-scale deployment of artificial intelligence triage systems.

ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations
ChatGPT Health was launched in January 2026 as OpenAI’s consumer health tool and has reached millions of users. Here we conducted a structured stress test of triage recommendations using 60 clinician-authored vignettes across 21 clinical domains under 16 factorial conditions, yielding 960 total responses. Performance followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, with the most dangerous failures concentrated at clinical extremes—nonurgent presentations (35%) and emergency conditions (48%). Among gold-standard emergencies, the system undertriaged 52% of cases, directing patients with diabetic ketoacidosis or impending respiratory failure to 24–48 h evaluation rather than the emergency department, while correctly triaging classical emergencies such as stroke and anaphylaxis. When family or friends minimized symptoms, indicating anchoring bias, triage recommendations shifted significantly in edge cases (odds ratio = 11.7, 95% confidence interval = 3.7–36.6), with the majority of shifts toward less urgent care. Crisis-intervention messages activated unpredictably across suicidal ideation presentations, occurring more frequently when patients described no specific method than when they did. Patient race, sex and barriers to care did not show significant effects, although confidence intervals did not exclude clinically meaningful differences. These findings reveal missed high-risk emergencies and inconsistent activation of crisis safeguards, raising safety concerns that warrant prospective validation before consumer-scale deployment of artificial intelligence triage systems.

Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care
Studies in Rwanda and Pakistan reveal real-world utility of chatbots in underfunded clinics, and not just in benchmark tests.

So this is a fascinating article about how a family used ChatGPT to help (emphasis on *help*, not on doing everything) diagnose the rare genetic disorder their kid had. While I know it will make some people angry, I think there are a few good lessons in here: bostonglobe.com/2026/09/12/metro/ai-chatgpt-h…
These parents didn’t know why their daughter was sick. They turned to AI to help solve the mystery. - The Boston Globe
www.bostonglobe.com