Much has been written about AI butchering our favorite movies, but how is it affecting the U.S. healthcare system? Well, it’s a polarizing and controversial subject, and this storyline in “The Pitt” season 2 reflects what’s happening in some real-world medical institutions.
The fear is that it will make the doctors more efficient, especially with things like charting, but then will that time go back to the patients or will they just have to see more patients?
This, along with the errors the AI is prone to make, are the main concerns I have with AI usage in the healthcare industry.
If they’re able to streamline the AI usage into a process that doesn’t allow (or minimizes) errors, I’m ok with that, but usually the higher ups (who can be very distant from the medical practice) decide when to use AI or not, and they mostly fail because they do not live the routines of those who will use the tool.
I’m hoping it blows up in Dr Al-Hashimi’s face and she gets sued. It’d blow her perfect record.
It’s exactly the conclusion I came to when I saw it. They even pointed out that it got a drug name wrong and put in another one. She says you gotta check it, but its already clear this place is way higher stress than what shes ever dealt with and im sure she will miss the mistake and it will be really bad.
This was like the 3rd show showing AI stuff. All of them are my wifes shows, this is the only one I enjoy watching with her. The most hilarious one was this week’s episode of 911. They let the company try out having AI take over the call center to field calls and a dispatcher would listen in for any mistakes and take over if needed. By the end AI took over, locked them out, they unplugged the servers, it still came back, they said it copied its self through an API, and finally the dispatcher had to talk down the AI because it now had a mind of its own and I swear she convinced it to copy its self to a USB stick where they unplugged it. I was dying of laughter the entire time, it was so bad and so wrong about everything. My wife was not amused. This show is so bad lol.
Once they showed the error the AI made I can already figure out the story for this season.
The new young smart doctor that is amazed by AI transcription will become too comfortable with how accurate it is will then make the mistake of not confirming patient meds and then there will be a drug interaction and patient dies. I bet it’s the handicap lady they tested the AI out on.
Or
Lady filling in for Robbie (that made the point to say she’s never been sued) will then use the AI and someone dies and then she gets sued.
I hope that someone eventually points out that the reason this doctor has never been sued was probably because she worked in the VA with vets who were terrified of suing the VA and losing their benefits.
