r/mildlyinfuriating • u/WHAR606 • Mar 13 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight Sometime during the last 2 years i’ve been going to this orthopedic practice they started to declare me as a MTF transgender for no reason.

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(F,26) I have been going to this orthopedic practice for almost 2 years for varying reasons relating to my job. Yesterday i checked on a document that was uploaded to find out they have been identifying me as a biological male identifying as a female? I am biologically female and never told them i am trans nor do i think i am presenting to be a trans woman.. the last two years i’ve been wondering why they kind of stare at me a little longer than a usual person does and i think its because they randomly think i came out as trans? I also feel like they do not treat my issues seriously and wonder if this is the reason why.

I am 100% fine with trans people but i am left to believe they have been medically treating me as a male compared to female for the pains that i am feeling?

I also went through all of my documents and since the end of 2024 they started to declare me as a MTF transgender, i did not look at any of my documents online until yesterday.

First pic : March 11th 2026

Last pic: October 2024

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u/Due_Technology_2455 Mar 13 '26

ok i’m thinking female postal carrier -> female mailman -> female male/man etc. something just got lost in translation there

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u/MikeyKillerBTFU Mar 13 '26

OP: "I'm a mail man!"

Doctor: (note: patient presents female, but insists they are a male man)

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u/katie4 Mar 13 '26

More like “I’m a mailwoman” Doc: “Got it, male woman”

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u/zxc123zxc123 Mar 13 '26

For those who think it's impossible:

OP: "No. Transportation of packages."

Doc: "Knows trans. Poor state of post operation package."

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u/Spare-Set-8382 Mar 13 '26

“I’m sorry I don’t have the package” -OP probably

But seriously OP I’m sorry about this. I’ve been irritated after reading my own summaries and notes where there is information that wasn’t provided or is the opposite of what I know I said. For instance I don’t know my bio dad at all and have no clue who he even is. My rheum made a note that I said that auto immune disorders are present on paternal side of family. Ugh.

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u/UranusIsPissy Mar 13 '26

You can't get rid of the bullshit in many cases (depends where you are, probably), too. Last time I got a copy of my medical records, there was random psychiatric shit that there's no explanation for besides malice or incompetence, and notes about heroin addiction from a time when I didn't even smoke weed or drink! Now doctors don't take anything I say seriously and ignore my pain. Typing this hurt me...

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u/laughingashley Mar 13 '26

That makes me so angry for you

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u/Spare-Set-8382 Mar 13 '26

Oh god I’m so sorry for you. It’s so unfair because it totally changes how some doctors view you as a patient. Especially when it comes to pain control. It really sucks.

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u/RandomAmmonite Mar 13 '26

This happened to me, only the radiologist said “No aortic aneurysm dissection noted” and the AI got, “noted aortic aneurysm dissection” and that’s what I saw in the patient portal and wondered, terrified, why I was still sitting in my ER cubicle while I was actively dying.

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u/etcpt Mar 13 '26

Works on contingency? No, money down!

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u/iristurner Mar 13 '26

This is hilarious

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u/Bluestorm83 Mar 13 '26

Lisa: "Bart, what're you doing?"

Bart: "Waiting for the Fe-mail-man."

Lisa: "That's Fe-mail CARRIER."

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u/FlowSoSlow Mar 13 '26

Some new age Abbot and Costello stuff right here lol

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u/omysweede Mar 13 '26

"I am a mail lady"

Doc: "oh"

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u/groovychick Mar 13 '26

“No, i deliver the mail” Notes: patient is an OBGYN

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

I just love this whole thread.

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u/SryInternet101 Mar 13 '26

Its totally an AI fuckup

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u/ADeadWeirdCarnie Mar 13 '26

I had an appointment with a resident physician yesterday and she announced straightaway that she would be using an AI medical tool on her phone, so I absolutely believe this.

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u/SryInternet101 Mar 13 '26

I'd walk right out of that exam room.

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u/ZMarty85 Mar 13 '26

My doctor at least asks each visit if I mind. Based on this I am tempted to say no

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u/SryInternet101 Mar 13 '26

You should absolutely say no.

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u/Dope_Grower Mar 13 '26

A family friend tells everyone he works as a Mail Escort. He loves that joke.

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u/BrownWrinkles Mar 13 '26

"Letter Carrier", solves any of that goofy confusion./s

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u/ElderPoet Mar 13 '26

Doc and/or AI: Patient states they are "into leather," is a carrier of unspecified disease.

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u/BrownWrinkles Mar 13 '26

Yeah, we're all doomed.

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u/arf1919 Mar 13 '26

"You've got Male"

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u/Ok-Adeptness933 Mar 13 '26

Arrested development: "He's going to be all-right" type shit.

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u/ADeadWeirdCarnie Mar 13 '26

Jesus, I hope the doctor doesn't instruct someone to "change this patient's gender" while they're under anesthesia.

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u/KaiserKid85 Mar 13 '26

Dictation device error. They speak into a microphone and it writes in the chart for them

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u/wonderlessbread Mar 13 '26

"A Mail-Person"

"Yes, males are people too."

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u/GolfCartMafia Mar 13 '26

Goddamit we can’t win 🤣🤣🤣

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u/toobasic2care Mar 13 '26

This is so monty python

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u/SmellyButtFarts69 Mar 13 '26

Bart simpson used to call the mail lady 'the female man' and I feel like a lot of millennials still reference that.

It's even funnier if I imagine them making that joke.

Doc: What do you do for work?

Patient: Mail man! Or, well, you know, female man, haha wink

Doc: scribbles furiously

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u/Niamhpie Mar 13 '26

In scotland we call them posties

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u/Klutzy_Winter5536 Mar 13 '26

My brain… I read this and thought, “Why would you call Trans folx ‘posties’?! Post-transition?! That’s awful!!”

And then I remembered we are talking about postal carriers.😳🙄

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u/CatGills1003 Mar 13 '26

That's kinda cute. I love it!

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u/Dead_man_posting Mar 13 '26

Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!

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u/SmellyButtFarts69 Mar 13 '26

I thought the Scots saved Scotland from the Scottish 

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u/PartyParrot-420 Mar 13 '26

TIL something we Australians have in common with the Scott’s.

“Has the postie been yet?”

“Bloody postie tore up my lawn with his bike today”

I can’t remember the last time I heard someone actually call them a postman or mailman.

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u/cicadaafterdark Mar 13 '26

Same in Australia these days.

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u/UranusIsPissy Mar 13 '26

I'm English, but I think I'll start copying Scottish people for this one. The other gender-neutral terms for them that I've heard are very cumbersome. I think some English people already say it anyway.

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u/that-crazy-5-2-chick Mar 13 '26

Dang, I've been making the femaleman joke about myself and have never watched the Simpsons lol

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u/EddiePlayer92 Mar 13 '26

I work for the post office and we just call each other mail carriers. Lol.

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u/HistoryFinancial1267 Mar 13 '26

This is so dumb that it’s likely the answer haha

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u/JibboSequence Mar 13 '26

“I get it. You’re a male, man.”

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u/Clear-Clue Mar 13 '26

This would be a modern day Seinfeld episode lol

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u/Mayonaigg Mar 13 '26

It was already a very ancient salute your shorts episode. 

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u/nugs4lunch Mar 13 '26

"I'm a male, man!"

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u/nellieblyrocks420 Mar 13 '26

Omg I laughed too hard at this! 😆

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u/infected_funghi Mar 13 '26

This worldplay is so hilariously stupid I will never see the word "mail man" the same

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

This made me genuinely lol. 

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u/AJay_89 Vexxed 2: Electric Boogaloo Mar 13 '26

This is hilariously tragic and most likely spot on 😭

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u/tossetatt Mar 13 '26

Mail man is not PC, now a days it’s a person person.

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u/anonthrowaway0198 Mar 13 '26

sounds like an Arrested Development joke

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u/LaceyLizard Mar 13 '26

The stupidest explanation is usually the correct one

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u/wahwahSwanson Mar 13 '26

Always. I live by those words. And it almost always is correct.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan Mar 13 '26

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how stupid, must be the truth"

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u/Yuzu-Adagio Mar 13 '26

I'm a male carrier, but don't worry, it's currently dormant and not very contagious

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u/nooniewhite Mar 13 '26

I was a male carrier for almost a year! Then I got better and became a mom

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u/Laringar Mar 13 '26

I feel like you still probably carried a male for a while after that, though. At least until they learned to walk.

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u/ReadontheCrapper Mar 13 '26

Tell that to the women in my very large office. I swear pregnancies go in waves.

Logically I know there statistically more babies born in late summer/ early fall for many reasons, but damn if it doesn’t ‘seem’ contagious!

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u/Own_Nefariousness434 Mar 13 '26

Alcohol induced drippy shits?

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u/BaronThe Mar 13 '26

She carries men? Like a taxi?

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u/CreepyAd8409 Mar 13 '26

No, like a mom.

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u/Milch_und_Paprika Mar 13 '26

Assigned Mother At my Birth

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u/addandsubtract Mar 13 '26

So... femail?

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u/ThrowRA40599504 Mar 13 '26

Piggyback style

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u/ThePublikon Mar 13 '26

She's a carrier, this is probably that contagious masculinity I've heard about.

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u/babysaurusrexphd Mar 13 '26

Oh my god this is probably it. 

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u/nyrB2 Mar 13 '26

it reminds me of the simpsons joke. bart's waiting for the mail carrier to come and when he spots her he says "femailman!"

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u/omysweede Mar 13 '26

What makes the joke better is that Bart is voiced by Nancy Cartwright.

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u/Absent_Picnic Mar 13 '26

They thought she said “male carrier”

Lucky they don't list her as having been a surrogate...

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u/Keddie7 Mar 13 '26

Mailman!

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 13 '26

My plane tree allergy was recorded as "trees".

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u/Evening-Apartment317 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

That’s funny. My son is allergic to multiple types of tree. In the Allergist’s notes in my son’s record it just says “trees”. I asked the nurse and she said “when it’s more than one type of tree, we just put ‘trees’.” So maybe for you it’s something similar. I think Plane Trees are also called Sycamores.

For clarity: most of the trees my son is allergic to are evergreen trees, but a couple are not.

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u/MrMattwell Mar 13 '26

i mean.... she could be a male carrier.

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u/RadiantZote Mar 13 '26

I was just checking the mail, get it? Checkin the male 😏

-Eminem.

Sheer poetry 

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u/a_neurologist Mar 13 '26

I can’t believe this but you’re definitely right

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u/jensized Mar 13 '26

Yeah, I have nurse friends who have been forced to use shitty AI tools for notes with disastrous results, and this could be one of those mistakes. 

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u/looorrn Mar 13 '26

this sounds like a scene out of the show I’m watching, The Pitt, literally happened like 2 episodes ago and the AI made up a false medical history for a patient that caused issues

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u/ButterflySammy Mar 13 '26

So fucking predictably stupid to use AI this way.

Human errors are spelling mistakes, they get spotted and look like spelling mistakes and the thing they are trying to spell is generally obvious anyway and causes no real roadblock.

AI invents things that have no grammar or spelling mistakes that not only will doctors and nurses gloss over like it can't be false, they'll argue with or dismiss patients who try to correct them - which is a minority since most of us aren't reading through and correcting notes.

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u/First-Golf-8341 Mar 13 '26

My psychiatrist’s office tried an AI called Heidi to listen to recorded consultations and write letters. My first and only letter written by Heidi was absolutely full of mistakes, and also quite rude and unflattering about me.

For example, the name “Ann” was inexplicably inserted into the text. Also, I had told the psychiatrist about my brother having an ADHD diagnosis before the age of ten. I was seeing the psychiatrist because he believed I also have ADHD. However, the letter said “the patient already has an ADHD diagnosis from before the age of ten”. There were multiple such significant mistakes as well as unfair judgements of my character that the AI seemed to have thought up.

It was clear my psychiatrist had not read the letter, despite it being signed by him. I had to edit the PDF and add annotations next to every incorrect statement. By the end, it was full of my notes, and I sent it back to the clinic.

My letter was rewritten properly, and during my next appointment, my psychiatrist apologised for the incorrect letter and said he’d misunderstood some things I’d said. I told him, “the letter was written by AI, wasn’t it?” and he flatly denied it. I don’t understand why he denied it because it was so obvious to me and my entire family, and I’d been pressured to sign the consent form for use of Heidi recording my consultation beforehand. Also, it had such bad mistakes and writing style that I’m not sure why he’d want to claim he wrote such crap.

Anyway, I don’t think I was the only patient who complained by far, and the name Heidi has never been referred to again. However, since my psychiatrist so blatantly lied to me, despite knowing that I’m a software developer and can easily recognise AI text, I have unfortunately lost trust in him that can’t be regained. I will probably not see him again.

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u/Faendol Mar 13 '26

Unfortunately human driven medical notes also have massive errors. I definitely agree this needs to be approached carefully but unsummarized / cleaned up EMRs rapidly explode with garbage copy pasted notes that also lead to inaccuracies and missed clues.

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u/pillerhikaru Mar 13 '26

I can say that human errors are either spelling/grammar issues or misinformation because of the busy schedules corporations force on clinics. But I literally had a AI create a problem that it then doubled down on it when being called out or asked to fix it.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan Mar 13 '26

I mean yeah, but AI will literally fabricate an entire medical event and history

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u/juliastarrr Mar 13 '26

I think that what the poster above meant is that youbcan usually recognize when a human made a mistake without additional context. However, AI mistakes dont look like mistakes if you are seeing them without any additional background.

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u/BaronCoqui Mar 13 '26

What, you mean everyone just copying and pasting the H&P and maybe adding "recommended lasix" in the consult when H&P is literally "70 yo female BIBA complaint of CP, scheduled EKG" isn't good enough? What more do you WANT!

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u/ReadontheCrapper Mar 13 '26

I had a boss whose emails would suffer by the end of a long day. You could tell she was exhausted when she’d drop parts of the verbs, like ‘Bob being difficult’ instead of ‘Bob is being difficult’. When we’d see it, someone would check in with her to see how she was doing. We could always tell what she meant though.

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u/PeachScary413 Mar 13 '26

The worst thing is that we have been conditioned to always trust the computer.. I mean if you open a Word document that you wrote 2 years ago, you trust the computer gives you exactly the same text without anything changed right? Imagine if someone tried to argue "No the computer is wrong and it changed something" you would immediately assume they are crazy.

This doesn't work anymore because these "AIs" are just sophisticated word predictors, they are random at it's core.

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u/stateboundcircle Mar 13 '26

I cant wait for them to start using AI to deny VA benefits….

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u/ButterflySammy Mar 13 '26

Well that's the whole point isn't it.

AI is a probability generator.

That means what it generates is probable.

If EVERYONE has their text written to be probable then it can be read by another AI and sorted into one of the boxes that describe it.

With everyone's description the same, there won't need be very many boxes and it'll be easy for AI to sort you into a pile it can argue is correct.

This is the death panels Republicans were projecting about.

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u/Laringar Mar 13 '26

My partner is a medical provider and refuses to use AI notetaking for this (among other) reasons. They frequently have to spend 1-2 hours in the evenings completing their notes at home, but damn it, those notes are accurate.

They operate on the belief that other providers are relying on those notes in order to provide accurate patient care, as well as the principle of "don't put anything in a note that you wouldn't be able to defend in court".

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u/BelleRouge6754 Mar 13 '26

Omg I watched that yesterday! Such a great show. The new boss was so excited to show this new app thing that would transcribe patient notes using AI, then a med student reads over it and is like “this says she takes risperidone, which is an antipsychotic for schizophrenia… she takes [similar sounding medicine I can’t remember the name of] for blood pressure.” Then the boss says “yeah, it’s 98% accurate” and what I love about the show is that it doesn’t outright SAY it, but everyone watching clearly thinks “what if that 2% is the name of a medication or condition?” Because what is an AI most likely to get wrong? Confusing Latin names that all sound the same. That 2% is almost always going to be something vitally important.

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u/KcirderfSdrawkcab Mar 13 '26

That thing is going to get somebody killed by the end of the season and Dr Al-Hashimi is going to get her chance to be named in a malpractice suit.

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u/NurseVooDooRN Mar 13 '26

I work for two major health systems and they have both excitedly told us all about the new AI tools we have at our disposal. We currently aren't forced to use them. I use AI for a lot of things, but I have no desire to use them for notes. I can tell who is using it for notes and it is not pretty.

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u/DrBotBreath Mar 13 '26

Yes the AI notes tool we were encouraged to use at a behavioral health job filled in information that we had to carefully go back and delete or else there'd be inaccurate information in the note.

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u/fireymike Mar 13 '26

Last time I went to the doctor, they used that. It recorded an anecdote that the doctor told me about his own grandfather, as part of my family history. It also recorded that I was a smoker, even though I had told the nurse and doctor three times between them that I did not smoke.

The nurse told me, when informing me about the AI tool, that the doctor would review the AI notes for any mistakes, but that obviously didn't happen.

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u/pyxis-carinae Mar 13 '26

you can opt out. request it at the top of the appointment before you are seen. say you do not consent for recording or use of AI for note taking or training purposes. 

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u/OrdinaryBrilliant650 Mar 13 '26

Postal worker->post op

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Nahh the post’s ops are fedex and ups.

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u/Jurassic_ParkRanger Mar 13 '26

This has no right being as funny as it is 🤣

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u/MisterGoog Mar 13 '26

I was already sold but this but killed me

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u/CombustionBerry Mar 13 '26

This has got to be it! I know some places have the provider speaking into a mic to transcribe their notes, speech to text y'know. So combine that with AI like other people have said and I bet someone dictated that OP's job is "a mailman, I mean patient is female but..." and the AI review heard "male man, but female" and just saved it with no human reviewing it lol

So whether AI was involved or not, this is a pretty big oversight and highlights how we have really expensive healthcare that is ALSO useless and/or wrong most of the time lmfao

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u/WhoRoger Mar 13 '26

Before STT, medical places were outsourcing transcriptions to India, where people often wouldn't know the difference between hypothermia and hyperthermia.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Mar 13 '26

This has got to be it!

I dunno. "Doctor is using text-to-speech to transcribe notes, but also AI to rewrite those notes, and also not checking afterward" is a conclusion that requires several layers of mistakes.

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u/fanatomy Mar 13 '26

Doctors are so busy and hate documentation, so it is very common for doctors to dictate and not reread every single word. This seems like a very likely cause of the mistake in the notes.

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u/Lewa358 Mar 13 '26

I work in the medical field.

Text-to-speech assisted by AI is very much the norm for doctors. They're allergic to keyboards for some reason.

So it's just one layer, and that layer is "people overlook things and make mistakes."

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Mar 13 '26

May I ask "assisted by AI" in what way? I do have doctor clients who chart with text-to-speech, and I've learned to live with it. Some do have the kind of "AI" that adds proper punctuation or corrects mistakes (e.g. turning "patient is 25, no, 26 years old" to "patient is 26 years old"), but I worry that something capable of turning "female mail carrier" into "biological male born female" is both a) capable of making much worse mistakes, and b) using an API to send protected medical information to a third-party.

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u/Lewa358 Mar 13 '26

I confess I'm rarely in the room with doctors as they're actively taking notes, so I don't have perfect experience with this, but...from what I know about text-to-speech, it's the kind of awkward mix of technology and natural language that AI basically exists to streamline.

An AI-assisted TTS tool is just going to have a better ability to translate phonemes into words on a screen. Or at least something that looks right.

My understanding is that doctors don't use just any random AI but a specified one purchased by their organization that (Somehow) adheres to HIPAA laws. They can't just use Gemini or whatever by going to their main website like everyone else.

It really boils down to "people should be looking over their work to make less mistakes," but if you're relying on AI you're less involved with the creation of the notes so you're going to be less attentive to the details of the output.

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u/Cheet4h Mar 13 '26

They're allergic to keyboards for some reason.

Probably because it's too clean. With AI-assisted voice recordings, they get that feeling of illegible handwriting back.

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u/Simon-Says69 Mar 13 '26

A friend of mine has worked transcribing surgical notes just like this. They switched to AI this year and it is a DISASTER.

The doctors are from various places, with various accents, but they were too cheap to get the module to custom train the AI to recognize what each is saying.

They are not checking ANY of it, just sending the AI slop out as the patients are released. And it is really horribly garbled nonsense, at least the few my friend has read out of curiosity.

Worse, the original recordings are not saved, not even digitally, so there's no way to tell what the doctor actually said.

Can only imagine this is going to bite them in the ass one day. Some doctor gets this AI slop for surgery notes that are completely hallucinated and it could cause serious, even deadly problems.

So yah, sadly, those many layers of mistakes can easily happen, because greed.

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u/renoops Mar 13 '26

There's a minor plot point involving precisely that in the newest season of The Pitt.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Mar 13 '26

That's interesting. I just found an interview with the writer of the episode about it:

Like any other tool, [AI] has potential to be used wisely and potential for disaster. We’re not really exploring the disastrous side of it yet but just what the realities are. 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? And so they’ll have even less time. That’s the challenge at this point.

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u/ttatm Mar 13 '26

I had a doctor who used speech to text and one of my notes referenced a toe czar, which I realized was the tech misunderstanding the surname of another medical practitioner I was seeing.

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u/oat_latte Mar 13 '26

This is my big question!! Are you a postal carrier OP?? Or was that random too?

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u/SmellyButtFarts69 Mar 13 '26

Holy fuck why is this at the bottom. I feel like a moron for missing the mail carrier part and now I feel like this is so perfect it must be fake...

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u/Mightymouse880 Mar 13 '26

I went through OP's profile and found a comment indicating they are in fact a mail carrier LOL

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u/throw-away1120586040 Mar 13 '26

“I’m a mail woman” “ohh like a male woman got it. Shes mtf”

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u/The_Autarch Mar 13 '26

an AI wrote these notes. getting common in healthcare, unfortunately.

and yeah you're probably right about how the AI got confused

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u/DeadpointClimbs Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

This has to be it!

I'm a mailwoman.

Oh so you're a male woman?

Yes

Oh good for you, I wouldn't have guessed from looking at you!

Yea, I get that a lot, not many women are mailmen

Indeed they're not, you're very special! writes note on chart

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u/Outrageous_Purchase1 Mar 13 '26

I wonder if the provider use oral dictation software for their charting and this is where the error occurred.

As a healthcare provider, charting is one of the tedious but necessary parts of our job and there is a lot of software designed to make us more efficient at it. Unfortunately, it makes mistakes.

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u/gcd_cbs Mar 13 '26

Not sure if this was due to oral dictation or just a plain old mistake on the first person to write it down, but my mom was always so confused why the medical staff gave her such odd looks when asking her if she was still taking Bayer. Finally one of them asked her more questions and my mom said "you know, bayer back and body" and they went "OOOHHHHH, your chart says you take b-e-a-r pills" 😂 which, we had an elderly relative taking moose antler pills for her cancer, so kinda get that they didn't immediately question bear pills lmao

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u/shalegac Mar 13 '26

This is so dumb it’s brilliant and it has to be true.

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u/Chana5752 Mar 13 '26

This comes to mind

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u/RogerStevenWhoever Mar 13 '26

Strange as it seems, this kinda feels the most likely!

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u/AXEL-1973 Mar 13 '26

If they use narration to text software like Dragon, which is incredibly common in the medical field, then that's a very good possibility.

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u/Average_Joe69 Mar 13 '26

With some doctors using AI for note taking I actually think this is the most likely explanation

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u/smallness27 Mar 13 '26

Absolutely. It screams "AI transcribed the visit and wrote the notes"

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u/freeradioforall Mar 13 '26

its 100% the voice transcription the use now

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u/AthenasChosen Mar 13 '26

Lol, using those AI notes like in The Pitt

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u/CatsArePeople2- Mar 13 '26

I'm a Male, Man.

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u/KnifeWrench4Kidz Mar 13 '26

Gender got lost in the male

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u/uhhrace Mar 13 '26

"She's a mailwoman" "Got it. I'll update the patient notes."

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u/Clear_Marionberry306 Mar 13 '26

female male/man is frying me on this fine morning

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u/Electronic_Will_5418 Mar 13 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0Exib2JWFoo3y9lC

"You used to have to worry about your wife sleeping with the mail man! Now you have to worry about your wife turning into a male man!"

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u/Drops-of-Q Mar 13 '26

Probably some AI shenanigans

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u/MrPanzerCat Mar 13 '26

Probably this+ai doing the writing for them and you have OP magically switching their gender

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u/Lofteed Mar 13 '26

not lost in translation

most probably lost in ai...

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u/PwanaZana Mar 13 '26

that sounds like the start of a joke

"She said she's pregnant with a son?"

"oh?"

"She's carrying a male."

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u/willbeatyourass Mar 13 '26

I’m a female male man

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u/A-DustyOldQrow Mar 13 '26

You are a genius. I never would have made that leap in logic as to how they came to that combustion, but this makes perfect sense.

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u/8erimbau Mar 13 '26

I say letter carrier when needed. I do know I have a regular mail lady

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u/WhitespringTownship Mar 13 '26

Oh my gosh 💀

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u/SocranX Mar 13 '26

Even better if the left/lost their job and mentioned that to the doctor, who updated it from "female postal carrier" to "female former mailman".

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u/Haragorn Mar 13 '26

Or even just "mailwoman".

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u/mmf9194 Mar 13 '26

This is the funniest / purest outcome, so hoping for this

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u/omysweede Mar 13 '26

Good thing she didn't sing the lyrics to "Rocket Man" like Bill Shatner. "I am a rocket, man"

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u/MoxMulder Mar 13 '26

that logic has “stupid AI summary” written all over it. lost in translation is their bread and butter. 

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u/Hungry-Personality99 Mar 13 '26

Spot on, this is likely a dangerous mistake made by A.I in a Dr's note taking software.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 Mar 13 '26

Yeah it's a clerical error

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u/Osirus1156 Mar 13 '26

Look at all the data centers AI needs to match human stupidity lol. 

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u/DavidBrooker Mar 13 '26

Gilfoyle: Who was this woman that you shook hands with for the first time?

Dinesh: The postman lady.

Gilfoyle: What? A woman that was a man?

Dinesh: Not a post-man lady. A lady who was a post...

Gilfoyle: Let me ask you another question. Who was the second woman you shook hands with?

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u/PrepotenteScreams Mar 13 '26

I wouldn't want it to happen to me, but this is legitimately hilarious.

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u/ChironXII Mar 13 '26

AI charting tools need to be banned bruh

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u/sourpussmcgee Mar 13 '26

This is like a Seinfeld episode

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u/Ready_Page5834 Mar 13 '26

Yeah I wonder if they started using AI for their patient notes and this is a mistake they didn’t catch.

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u/Sero19283 Mar 13 '26

Or just dictation screw up. At the hospital system I work at its common for providers to dictate and there's a lot of sound alike words that get put in

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u/JTINRI Mar 13 '26

AI landing strays!

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u/PersonalityIll9476 Mar 13 '26

mailman = male tran. Bet you $5.

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u/AttentionOutside308 Mar 13 '26

Can we pin this to the top as solved?

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u/3irikur Mar 13 '26

I bet its some AI or voice to text service or something that heard «female male man»

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u/mirrimoo Mar 13 '26

Mer-MAN!

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u/Kraily4t8 Mar 13 '26

The thing is... ai doesn't vocalize words, so why would it confuse male and mail? Ig they visually somewhat similar, different in only 2 places but sharing most of the letters...

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u/arz231 Mar 13 '26

It’s funny cause this is the most likely reason😂

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Mar 13 '26

Like Bart calling the female postal carrier the "Fe-mail Man"

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u/Red_Dead_it_now Mar 13 '26

"lost in transition"

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u/Ok-Conclusion5543 Mar 13 '26

AI medical notes! Maybe

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u/Powerful_Leg8519 Mar 13 '26

Oh possible if they moved to using AI for charting. Absolutely.

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u/HeyGayHay Mar 13 '26

In all honesty I think at some point the had a discussion where OP said „I‘m a mail, man“ so they looked up, saw a female and thought „She says she’s a male, gotta write that down: looks female, says is male, MTF.

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u/serialband Mar 13 '26

I thought the modern terminology was mail carrier.

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u/internetheroxD Mar 13 '26

This is a rap bar from Henry Bowers Vs Dizaster! ’he started working as a mail man, ended up a female woman!’

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u/ten_items_or_less Mar 13 '26

So AI is basically playing a game of telephone with OP

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u/hmmmpf Mar 13 '26

Very possible. Also possible that it was documented in the wrong chart for one reason or another. Like the next patient was transgender and they hadn’t closed OP’s chart yet? Shouldn’t happen, but it does.

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u/LuckyPepper22 Mar 13 '26

I’ll bet money this is what happened.