Nurses Say AI Tools Worsen Patient Care
10 posts across 7 communities in the last 30 days; 20% from r/MachineLearningJobs.
“Robots cannot do surgery without a trained professional or anything close to emergency medicine….”
“Ai is good for looking at X-rays [re: Where were you when ChatGPT killed big pharma?]”
“I hear people casually stating how it is possible for AI to replace radiologists in the coming years. But i am surprised that they fail to realise that a lot more doctors rely on simple pattern recognition in patient history and patient lab reports. AI is already far superior at…”
Posts discuss the increasing use of AI in medicine, highlighting both its potential (outperforming specialized tools) and concerns about accuracy and reliance on unverified sources like Open Evidence. This reflects a shift towards technology-driven healthcare with questions around validation and trust.
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“Ai is good for looking at X-rays [re: Where were you when ChatGPT killed big pharma?]”
“I hear people casually stating how it is possible for AI to replace radiologists in the coming years. But i am surprised that they fail to realise that a lot more doctors rely on simple pattern recognition in patient history and patient lab reports. AI is already far superior at text based tasks rather than vision based tasks. Further, so many more high paying jobs rely solely on thinking, anayzing and formulating a management plan, all these tasks are easy for AI. So if such a time comes that r”
“My hospital that hasn't rolled out any AI use for nurses (yet). What have you seen so far? I have friends that work at larger hospitals that are using AI for care plan notes and tell me that most notes have errors. submitted by /u/tired247rn [link] [comments]”
“The providers at my hospital use AI to help record assessments and dictate. They just started using it. They do get patient's permission though, often recorded as they are asking. If the answer is no, the phone goes off and in a pocket.”
“I messed around with a bunch of AI tools when they first started getting useful and now I barely use most of them. The one thing that stuck for me is really specific clinical questions where Google gives me garbage and I know Im about to open six tabs trying to find the relevant paper. For normal bread and butter stuff I can usually get what I need faster from the references I already use. Curious where everyone else landed after the novelty wore off. Anything you started using AI for that actua”
“This is not your regular "Is AI going to take our jobs?" post. I am a fresh IM doc and I have noticed that AI has taken over what I find satisfying about my job: the fact that I know more about medicine. More than my patients, more than docs of other specialties and sometimes even more than my peers. I don't know if this is coming off a little narcissistic but I really liked the fact that I had knowledge about every inch of medicine at least even a little (most of the times at a de”
“I messed around with a bunch of AI tools when they first started getting useful and now I barely use most of them. The one thing that stuck for me is really specific clinical questions where Google gives me garbage and I know Im about to open six tabs trying to find the relevant paper. For normal bread and butter stuff I can usually get what I need faster from the references I already use. Curious where everyone else landed after the novelty wore off. Anything you started using AI for that actua”
“An interesting paper to read. The summary is that AI's performance in terms of diagnostic accuracy was comparable to "non-expert" physicians but fell short of "expert physicians". Most of this was done with Chat GPT but other models were included too. Its something to watch. AI vs Physicians - Diagnostic Accuracy”
“I believe in the future, it will likely be illegal for humans to offer medical advice. For an AI to get approved as a licensed physician (it can already smoke the STEP 1,2,3) it will have to outclass humans to a ridiculous extent. We've seen this standard held with self driving vehicles. As such, it will constitute wholesale medical malpractice for any human to refer out or consult a human. There will be peer reviewed and well established trials showing LLMs outclass panels of experts. It wo”
“Been going through some recent studies and came across this one from a Stanford/Harvard group called NOHARM. In a nutshell, they looked at 20 general LLMs alongside 4 clinical AI tools using realistic consultation cases, focusing on things like appropriateness, safety, and harmful errors. I've been looking into clinical tools for my own workflow, so this caught my attention. I thought the setup of the study was pretty interesting, especially since they were testing the tools on actual consul”
“I am seeing a lot of push for AI integration in clinical decision support, but I am extremely skeptical. Most of the general tools I have tested are essentially black boxes. They can give you a pretty convincing answer, but it’s not always clear how well it actually lines up with the evidence. If I can’t check the source, I’m not using it to make a clinical decision..If I’m using something to help with an actual clinical decision, I want to be able to quickly trace it back to a guideline or prim”
“I personally would find it sufficient just to prove both that AI can exist without ML and that ML can exist without AI. The former is easy to prove, since AI has essentially existed since even before computing, while the latter is harder to prove, since ML as a field was created for AI.> If we go with that, though, I'd say AI is anything that uses a model to make decisions instead of hand written "if" statements.Hand-written if-statements are a model though...I would say AI is anything with the”
“Robots cannot do surgery without a trained professional or anything close to emergency medicine…. submitted by /u/YogurtclosetOpen3567 [link] [comments]”
“Hello everyone I am starting my attending journey as an IM PCP. How do you think PCP career is changing with advent of AI? Do people just look up their symptoms and try to self treat? Ask alot more questions? Or is it good that patients are more literate about their own health and thus likely to be more compliant if they hear the same thing from 2 sources? Also, how often do you disagree with AI and how do you counsel your patients about it As long as we have the prescription power, I would thin”
“https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04431-5 Abstract Specialized clinical artificial intelligence (AI) tools are entering medical practice despite scarce independent evaluation. We quantitatively evaluate two clinical AI tools, OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI, built on large language models (LLMs) against three frontier LLMs: GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 4.6. Our evaluation has three stages: (1) 500 MedQA questions testing medical knowledge, (2) 500 HealthBench items measur”