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a woman holds a black ball in her hands ALT: a woman holds a black ball in her hands

I want to see a study funded by Magic 8-Ball comparing the two

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

The @annalsofem.bsky.social editors' summary is unjustifiably generous about AI scribing.

Editors' job is to temper the author's enthusiasm, not hype it.

“A hospitalization rate at 2% is ludicrous...It’s vast underreporting. Measles makes you sick.”

- Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Washington Post image A student's arm is seen in the rubble at the school in Minab, Iran. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA/ Reuters

It was correct of the WaPo to publish this photo of the aftermath of the attack on the girls' school in Minab.

A school girl's detached arm laying next to her dirt-covered viscera.

This is now our legacy in the world.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Our study was conducted at a single tertiary academic ED, and ambient AI use was voluntary and encounter-specific, on a low overall percentage of encounters (11.2%) skewed toward lower acuity and highly skewed adoption among a subset of physicians. Comparisons should be interpreted as descriptive associations reflecting early real-world use. Furthermore, outcomes were derived from electronic health record audit logs, which estimate active electronic health record time but cannot fully distinguish focused documentation from multitasking, interruptions, or concurrent clinical activity. Misclassification of on-shift versus after-shift work is possible when physicians extend beyond scheduled shift end or document remotely. Finally, we did not directly assess documentation quality, coding accuracy, patient experience, or financial impacts, which are important dimensions of ambient AI evaluation.

Abstract:
"When used [in an ER setting], ambient AI was associated with shorter on-shift documentation time, total EHR time."

Editors' summary
"AI modestly shortened documentation time."

Limit
"Comparisons should be interpreted as *descriptive* associations"
www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...

There is no acceptable reason to call the Higgs boson the “God particle.” It corresponds to no theological concept in circulation and the guy responsible for it originally called it “goddamned particle“ because it was hard to find

Somehow, I'm starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize 🤔

I’m going to be blunt here: Helen Keller could have seen this result coming from a mile away.

For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.

Tweet from uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock I knew Dave Newman, but when I very first heard your story, Aja, I believed you. You deserved to be protected the most. I'm so sorry you had to go through this, but we are fighting to make sure this never happens again.

"But when [Aja] also asked the technician, who sprayed Luminol on the bag of evidence, to also spray her ...
“It was all over my face, all over my breasts like I told her”"
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social

Need to remind new EM docs of this case every now and then
www.thecut.com/2019/10/moun...

And not just the actions of *Mr* Newman by himself.

Also how "many* people in EM initially took his side, defended Newman

Tweet from uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock I knew Dave Newman, but when I very first heard your story, Aja, I believed you. You deserved to be protected the most. I'm so sorry you had to go through this, but we are fighting to make sure this never happens again.

"But when [Aja] also asked the technician, who sprayed Luminol on the bag of evidence, to also spray her ...
“It was all over my face, all over my breasts like I told her”"
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social

Need to remind new EM docs of this case every now and then
www.thecut.com/2019/10/moun...

Oh buddy. Good thing we're doing a text thing here or I would be murdering the prosody of Cervantes and Benito

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

“There is absolutely, unequivocally no appropriate way to detain a child, period. It is causing physical, mental, measurable, studied harm."
- Dr. Lara Jones, pediatric critical care doc
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YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD Casey Means, surgeon general nominee, opposes vaccines. Here's how you can tell.

Casey Means is an anti-vaxxer. Don’t be fooled by her repetition of “vaccines save lives.” Listen to the caveats she gives and how hard they have to push to get her to admit specific vaccines are effective. She is not qualified to be surgeon general.

Joke a shade too recondite for some, i fear

A solid headline for a longform piece about this Surgeon General nomination would be "Means' Motive and Opportunity."

Murderbots are a go.

hmm weird that the sexist gets it wrong machine would act this way

Not to turn this into Bluesky bingo, but i thought using AI like this was explicitly part of Project 2025?

‘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

"In one of the simulations, eight times out of 10 (84%), the [Chatgpt] sent a suffocating woman to a future appointment she would not live to see"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Left: me on iTalki pronouncing "garantizado"
Right: my iTalki tutor planning feedbackj

step 1) identify a problem
step 2) make that problem worse

What kind of shithole country allows this to happen?

Headline in the financial times: Private equity tries to breathe new life into US hospice chain Kinderhook’s $1.1bn bet on Enhabit comes with thin margins, heavy debt and increasing scrutiny

"Recent academic research has been almost universally negative about the impact on patient outcomes when financial buyers get involved.
[But] it may be that Enhabit can, away from the strictures of public market reporting, generate better financial returns while still looking after patients"

"Most infected children..."
MF, most children do fine regardless of what you throw at them.
*Most* children do fine with lawn darts, Tide pods, and riding on the back of a motorcycle.

Holy cow, I wouldn't want a hot mike in front of me, and I'm nominally in control of my utterances.

"¿Quiénes son realmente nuestros héroes?
¿A quién estamos honrando?
Y en algunos lugares, donde la gente tumbó estatuas, no se volvieron a instalar. Y han dejado los pedestales vacíos y eso provoca una conversación sobre lo que sí debería estar ahí.
Por lo menos obliga una reflexión."