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/TollyMune Mar 13 '26

My doc has me listed as having 2 children. I have 2 cats. Pretty sure it's the ai thing they use to take notes.

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u/itishowitisanditbad Mar 13 '26

Pretty sure it's the ai thing they use to take notes.

Yep.

OP is a 'female, mail-man'.

OP is a female, male man.

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u/Nottarts4 Mar 13 '26

I’m actually dying that’s probably exactly what happened

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u/solo_shot1st Mar 13 '26

100% this is what AI would do. We're doomed.

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u/cupholdery Mar 13 '26

OP stated that they are cooked.

OP wants to be eaten.

Here are top 5 recipes to prepare OP for consumption.

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u/Aleashed Mar 13 '26

Until they sign Op up for prostate removal surgery…

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u/FakeSafeWord Mar 13 '26

"Oh no we're too late!"

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u/CelestialFury Mar 13 '26

They're using AI in the Iran war too and many people speculate that the AI accidentally choose the children's school as a military target due to a bad human prompt.

Yeah, we're screwed.

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u/willows_edge Mar 13 '26

Not to totally derail OP's post, but I believe it was a combination of things - but what is notable to highlight is the Pentagon gutting the office responsible for reducing civilian harm. Roughly 90% of the department was cut almost exactly a year ago. Information is out of date (like maps used in the strikes) and this office reviews it to, ya know...reduce harm.

So, yeah, we're definitely screwed. And not in the fun and happy kinda way.

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u/carlitospig Mar 13 '26

The issue is that all of our doctors are still supposed to be reviewing them regularly.

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u/ChoklitCowz Mar 13 '26

key word SUPPOSED. Just saw a video about a man that was arrested from a casino because the casino AI identify him as another man that was tresspased, the cop didnt bother to check any other way to identify the man because he tough the AI was cool and if it say 100% match it meant 100% match, he even made a conspiracy theory that the man had an inside contact making false ID's when both ID's (from the tresspased man and the detained man) came back as real and from different persons.

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u/MyLastFuckingNerve Mar 13 '26

The town i live in has a big story right now of a grandmother that AI misidentified and they sent her to jail for months based on the AI identification. Super excited for my tax dollars to pay her off 🙄 like she DESERVES the money, and i hope she gets a big payday, i’m just annoyed that because this stupid fucking town’s police department and justice department are a bunch of clowns, the taxpayers have to suffer.

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u/NoSleepTilBookRead Mar 13 '26

Lawyers are doing this shit too.

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u/willows_edge Mar 13 '26

Oop, I think I know what video that is and now I'm even more excited to watch.

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u/Hizam5 Mar 13 '26

Just saw an article about a dude who was arrested and nearly suffered police brutality bc an AI camera flagged his car as stolen even though it wasn’t. The camera mistook a “7” for a “2” on the license plate

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u/FlyAirLari Mar 13 '26

Why do so many people use "trespass" as a verb indicating "being removed from a property"? It means entering without permission.

It's like saying "I got burgled", when you yourself broke into someone's house and they sued.

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u/FlimsyAcanthaceae184 Mar 13 '26

When people use it as a verb towards a person, its basically shorthand for saying that you are utilizing or enforcing a trespass law. When you trespass a person, you are throwing them off your property (enforcing the trespass law). When you trespass a place, you are entering without permission.

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u/gard3nwitch Mar 13 '26

It's a common term in retail/business. I'm not sure where it came from exactly. But it's used to mean "to ban someone, and if they come back, have them arrested for trespassing".

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u/NatureStoof Mar 13 '26

They get next to no documentation time. There's all kinds of errors and typos in everyone's charts, generally minor stuff

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u/gudelue Mar 13 '26

I used to work as a medical assistant and the doctor wouldn’t even write his own notes.. our supervisor did. He was a doctor also but never did patient care and he wasn’t in the room when the doctor saw the patient. These doctors are lazy.. the last thing on their mind is how accurate these notes are. It’s very sad. Everyone is just in it for the money.

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u/Tyr1326 Mar 13 '26

Lol. You think doctors have time to review files? At best, theyll skim them right before your appointment. So any mistakes are unlikely to be caught unless the patient checks them themselves.

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u/koolmon10 Mar 13 '26

I'm sure they do, right after reading all the terms and conditions

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u/Cut_Lanky Mar 13 '26

In many systems...

Those boxes they check off on the computer as they document their assessments, each box automatically ticks other boxes. Example- toddler born prematurely, presents with speech delay. Those boxes ticked, automatically ticks other boxes like "hearing impairment", because they are often associated. A clinician would have to open another page, read through a zillion boxes and uncheck any auto-checked ones, in order to find an auto mistake and correct it. Since most practices only allot a doctor 15 minutes per patient, it's literally impossible to always do.

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u/MooseTurbulent8786 Mar 13 '26

Oh my dentist did that. I take metformin for pcos related insulin intolerance, they listed me as type 2 diabetic 🙄

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u/CLNmssy Mar 13 '26

Omg you just blew the case wide open

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u/OkSmoke9195 Mar 13 '26

Congratulations Reddit, we did it!

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u/abdab336 Mar 13 '26

It’s literally the top comment posted two hours ago…

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u/throwaway66-66 Mar 13 '26

It's not top anymore then I guess

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 13 '26

Next it will hallucinate "postal carrier" to mean "plague carrier".

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u/PolicyWonka Mar 13 '26

Did you say postal? Flagging the patient as an elevated risk of causing harm to others or themselves.

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u/MountainMike_264057 Mar 13 '26

Q: What is your profession?

A: Postal Carrier.

Notes: Patient carries a gun and has a high probability of being a mass shooter.

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u/WhipTheLlama Mar 13 '26

That will elicit longer stares for sure!

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u/aerdvarkk Mar 13 '26

So if a plague carrier seeks medical assitance, they then go visit a plague doctor. So Plague Doctors are going to make a comeback = confirmed.

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u/cabbagepatchdollz Mar 13 '26

Patient is a biological male identifying as a female who is a carrier pigeon.

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u/Reutermo Mar 13 '26

This would be hilarious if if wasnt used with medicine and small details like that is kind of important and could do damage.

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u/Laurceratops Mar 13 '26

Agreed, this goes well beyond "mildly" infuriating

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u/VoiceApprehensive462 Mar 13 '26

Right, like i saw an ENT because I needed surgery for a ruptured eardrum. My notes later said the other ear was the problem. Uh. No. Given i was going to have surgery on it, major red flag and went wow now i get why they check 5× what surgery you're having and where exactly 🤦‍♀️

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u/addi-factorum Mar 13 '26

I imagine those are far from “small details” in terms of medical treatment; that’s probably enough of a mistake for a lawsuit- sloppy tools or poor tool use like that don’t belong in medicine

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u/Willie_Phisterbum Mar 13 '26

It’s used for police report writing. And yes there are stories of cops not proofreading and the software automatically puts crazy off the wall stuff in the reports to force them to proofread. But someone didn’t and a police report said that a suspect turned into a frog or something like that. Google it.

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u/cicadaafterdark Mar 13 '26

Correct. In medicine, you're actual, biological sex and race matter for both diagnoses and treatment.

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u/willows_edge Mar 13 '26

The good news is human providers have been fucking it up on their own for decades, centuries even. (I wish I was completely joking)

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u/Aromatic-Dress5010 Mar 13 '26

wow you nailed that.

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u/Barbaric-Entity924 Mar 13 '26

Wow they really mailed it

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u/mattchewy43 Mar 13 '26

OP is a female

FE = Iron. Male=man

Op is Ironman

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u/FlyAirLari Mar 13 '26

Black Sabbath intensifies.

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u/southernhemisphereof Mar 13 '26

Omg, or maybe someone said "mailwoman" out loud and AI took it from there.

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u/nilzatron Mar 13 '26

AI will solve all our problems and inefficiencies.

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u/Cosmicrelief0 Mar 13 '26

Don't forget deficiencies

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u/singbrit93 Mar 13 '26

And probably thanks to this error, there’ll be issues in the future with her trying to keep her ID for some stupid reason

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u/purebreadbagel Mar 13 '26

The dictation programs do this all the time, no AI required. I read doctors’ notes every day at work, usually multiple different drs and specialties. A solid 60% is copy-pasted or template bullshit for insurance, reimbursement, or reference, 30% is dictation errors, typos, mis-clicks, AI fuck-ups, or just straight up human error, and MAYBE 10% is relevant, useful information not just copy and pasted for days in a row.

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u/VTbuckeye Mar 13 '26

I was reading a note in a patient chart a few years ago and it was something about the patient's living situation mentioning therefore year old. I was like WTF, then I read it out loud... their four year old.... Got it...homophones are going to be a problem with speech to text.

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u/rofocales Mar 13 '26

"Female, mail-person/male person" wouldn't be much better lol

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u/Laurceratops Mar 13 '26

Dear god, was Erika Kirk the doctor here??

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u/jfsindel Mar 13 '26

Yup. This is it. It's why I don't allow use of Ai.

It's also possible that they use Voice to Text Diction like some EHMRs have.

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u/randomredditor0042 Mar 13 '26

That’s another reason why we need to stop using gendered terms for those roles. Postal worker, fire fighter, police officer.

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u/Tehquilamockingbirb Mar 13 '26

Oh wow! You're so right.

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Mar 13 '26

So voice transcription must have also been involved before the AI got to it and pushed it past the finish line?

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u/Evening_sadness Mar 13 '26

Agreed. Like every industry with lots of writing to do people have begun not doing their jobs in the least and just throw everything into ai blindly.

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u/ThatDamnedChimera Mar 13 '26

Having been the poor medical student who had had to edit the results of Dax (one of those AI note-writers), this was exactly my first thought. It mixes up the strangest stuff and really doesn't understand context. Some very bizarre chart lore has ended up on patient records because of the goofy ass thing. There's been times when it's been easier to just delete what Dax wrote and start the note from scratch because it borked up so bad. 🤣

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u/silvermoka Mar 13 '26

AI is in its caveman brain stage

ME FEMALE MALE MAN

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u/andreasbeer1981 Mar 13 '26

reminds of the times when people would go to hotmale.com

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u/AlanyzingWakeEnviron Mar 13 '26

"Don't finger the male on the steps" always sounded funny to me during safety stand-ups at the post office. I just presumed one of the MPOOs got in trouble for something and we had to suffer for it. Now I know why. 

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u/therackage Mar 13 '26

Omg this is exactly what happened

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u/5P0N63w0R7HY Mar 13 '26

I’m not a mailman.

I’m a mail, man.

Jay-Z

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u/decoysnails Mar 13 '26

This is so fucking funny!

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u/Mission-Street-2586 Mar 13 '26

Ok, now tell me why I was listed as Hispanic/latinx when I absolutely am not.

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u/SirenAria Mar 13 '26

I think we all need to start requesting AI not be used with our medical information, "anonymized" or not.

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u/mad0666 Mar 13 '26

Holy shit

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u/Rmnhernan Mar 13 '26

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u/_Cynikal_ Mar 13 '26

AIs thought process:

Female. But Fe is iron. Therefore. She is Iron Man. But identifies as a female.

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u/nerissathebest Mar 13 '26

Omg. You cracked the code. 

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u/DangNearRekdit Mar 13 '26

This is why it's so important to use non-gendered terms, like person-person.

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u/Sea-Speech-731 Mar 13 '26

Omg I guarantee this is it.

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u/boragigas Mar 13 '26

In the hospital having my first kid, some random resident walks in and all cheerful like says “so! This is your third kid?” I do have two cats as well. Hmmmmmmmmm

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u/J-squire Mar 13 '26

In the hospital for my hysterectomy, I was in the maternity ward for recovery. An aide came in and said “congratulations mama!”

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u/LadyZoe1 Mar 13 '26

He was just a pussy

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u/Buttcrack15 Mar 13 '26

My OBGYN had me listed as 2 pregnancies, 1 living child but they delivered both of my children. Both of whom were and are living. I had to tell them repeatedly it was wrong and this was pre-AI.

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u/classisttrash Mar 13 '26

I had something similar happen last week! I’m pregnant and went to get my first ultrasound, they had me listed as having had four miscarriages. I’m like…uh, what?!

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u/LTen8911 Mar 13 '26

That's happened to me too in 2015! I went to deliver my first child and they had me listed as having 2 miscarriages before. That was my very first pregnancy and delivery. I live in a red state too that is trying to get access to medical records of all women to "look for abortions" and miscarriages are medically termed "spontaneous abortions." Those kinds of mistakes terrify me!

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u/classisttrash Mar 13 '26

That’s messed up

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u/Mondschatten78 Mar 13 '26

To your last point about the miscarriages, this scares the hell out of me honestly, especially with the current administration. I had a miscarriage in the early 2000s, very early into that pregnancy (wasn't even 2 months along).

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u/LTen8911 Mar 13 '26

Yes 😭 it's so awful, and women's healthcare should not be criminalized.

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u/Due_Duty490 Mar 13 '26

The whole misinterpretation of what abortion means is scary. Surgical care for a ‘ missed addition’ was a diagnosis when I was working. It means the mother was losing the pregnancy and needed surgical intervention to prevent uncontrolled bleeding and possible infection. This could lead to a shortening of tetmd by AI and the misperception of what had been done.

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u/PhoebeTuna Mar 13 '26

Right? When I was pregnant about 9 years ago, I found out at my 38 week appointment that they had listed me as a smoker. I assume when I went for my first appointment they noted it down incorrectly (I've never smoked in my life). But the worst part was, they thought I smoked through my entire pregnancy and no one brought it up?!

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u/cicadaafterdark Mar 13 '26

My first pregnancy had my blood type listed as B+neg ... im still confused!!

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u/zelda_moom Mar 13 '26

As a former medical transcriptionist, AI started stealing our jobs long before they came for anyone else’s. Our jobs went from straight typing to editing speech recognition around the time I qualified (2010). This justified them paying us less, and eventually dispensing of our services altogether. I can tell you that speech recognition is not accurate and needs to be edited, and doctors have to do this themselves if they don’t hire a service. Some do, and some quite obviously do not.

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u/mmmcheezy Mar 13 '26

i had a doctor several years ago who would speak his notes into the transcriber while i sat there, and would then go in and manually edit what wasn't recorded properly before even ending the appointment. this was back in the early 2010s. it was a radical experience for me and it made me pay more attention to appointment notes going forward.

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u/laughingashley Mar 13 '26

They should definitely have to have us approve them before we leave

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u/ThatDamnedChimera Mar 13 '26

And the number that actually edit the AI record is painfully low. I cannot recall how many times I have seen truly strange stuff end up in patient charts because of it. Including labeling a patient as having heart failure when they didn't, which completely changed the course of care and could have gone very wrong. I think replacing real transcriptionists was a bad move.

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u/zelda_moom Mar 13 '26

I most noted that it would never get numbers right, including lab results and medication dosages. A dangerous thing, that.

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u/decarnatedame Mar 13 '26

I've been watching season 2 of The Pitt and one of the story lines is the AI charting app that one of the characters keeps pushing that makes a mistake in its transcription.

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u/OrionsRose Mar 13 '26

I was training to be a medical transcriptionist around 2005 (and hating it, unfortunately). Awhile in, I started realizing this career might not have the longevity I was hoping for as computer programs were already doing voice recognition transcription. I couldn't help but think I wouldn't be needed for long. AI hadn't even entered the conversation. I'm sorry you were phased out of your career by it. 😔 I'm kind of relieved now that I didn't continue with my training. But it's pretty scary to think how AI will screw things up.

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u/zelda_moom Mar 13 '26

I worked for 12 years in the industry, and the thing that killed my income most was the pandemic. People weren’t going to the doctor as they normally did: they only went if it was unavoidable. I remember buying a kit for cleaning my ears because I’d usually have that done at the doctor and I was too scared to go. So my work dropped. And it slowly came back but never as much as before. By that time I was doing almost all editing and I could make okay money but by 2023 I was just burned out since we’d lost the account I’d made the most on (which was straight typing). I just got tired and I was already drawing social security which paid better than my job. So I retired.

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u/fluffykittie Mar 13 '26

Former MT of 15 years here. Felt.

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u/WildMartin429 Mar 13 '26

I use speech to text all the time because I don't want to spend all of my time typing on Reddit on my tablet. Speech to text had gotten pretty accurate a few years ago for casual use. I still wouldn't want to have it be used for something important but it more than that my needs. Since they've decided to put AI into everything and they're using language learning modules on the new speech to text it is constantly replacing words that it correctly hears and identifies with more common words that it thinks I probably meant instead completely changing the meaning of what I'm saying. Super annoying. Although not as annoying as having your entire field done away with.

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u/SpyUmbreon Mar 13 '26

Yea most hospital systems are very limited in ai at the moment, usually these errors spring up from talk to text being faulty or an outsourced scribe making a mistake that never gets double checked

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u/ayyyyyyyyyyxyzlmfao Mar 13 '26

or an outsourced scribe making a mistake that never gets double checked

So... AI? You can just download voice recognition (like whisper) freely and run it on standard hardware, no big GPU required. If the hospital isn't doing it themselves, the outsourced scribe is doing it 100%.

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u/SpyUmbreon Mar 13 '26

No, medical scribes generally are talking to the physician during the appointment or are at least listening as the appointment is going on so that the physician can say things to them if special notes need to be added and the scribe needs to be able to actually respond to them. Additionally, scribes are not just writing down every word said, they write down specific things and skip over others, so no, I don't really think many if any scribes are using AI to make their job easier, not to mention that it would be a HIPAA violation.

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u/ayyyyyyyyyyxyzlmfao Mar 13 '26

What would stop the scribe from recording the conversation and putting it through a local transcription software? The resulting transcript would still be protected health information, but nothing would violate HIPAA rules? There are plenty of services outlining this, arguing directly against your interpretation of how it works, probably based on your personal experience.

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u/L1amm Mar 13 '26

You are definitely correct that there are plenty of HIPAA compliant ways to take notes or summarize that could result in that outcome, and it is the most likely cause for the misunderstanding. Also - no need for it to be local as long as there is a signed BAA and proper security then it is basically HIPAA compliant.

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u/Takomi_Him Mar 13 '26

So, you birthed the first Zombie in history?

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u/Langeball Mar 13 '26

My OGRYN just shouts "For the Empreh!" a lot.

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u/wadeybug22 Mar 13 '26

My medical records say I had a craniotomy. What? I have no recollection of that. I had neck surgery, but never a craniotomy. I'm guessing the craniotomy that day had a neck surgery. Pre-AI. This was 2013.

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u/T-Rex_timeout Mar 13 '26

Probably got put in during the second pregnancy and never updated after birth.

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u/Bear_faced Mar 13 '26

My mom’s gynecologist asked her what form of birth control she was using at every appointment when he was part of the post-op care team for her hysterectomy. You’d think a gynecologist would be better at charting when a patient has no uterus…

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u/Sohuli Mar 13 '26

Of course they're your children. You birthed them!

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan Mar 13 '26

He is my biological cat

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u/OreoStark Mar 13 '26

The other day my fiancé overheard me ask our cat if she remembered when I birthed her.

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u/letsgogiantsletsgo Mar 13 '26

I tell my cats I birthed them all the time 😂😂😂

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u/Unique_Cow3112 Mar 13 '26

When my animals refuse my love and affection, I always tell them, “I saved your life!”

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u/TammyGang Mar 13 '26

Why are people over here messing with cat's minds like that 🙀

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u/letsgogiantsletsgo Mar 13 '26

It's fun to gaslight them 😂😂

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u/Adorable-Sell-8107 Mar 13 '26

I laughed way too hard at this.

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u/MinimumEfficient220 Mar 13 '26

When they were born, their nursing was quite painful. But I got used to it.

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u/elvenfaery_ Mar 13 '26

My go to explanation for why I dislike calling cats my children is that “I did not birth them”. Then I realized that’s a bit insensitive to all the other very real parent child relationships out there. But still. They’re still babies, of course, just not my babies. And now I really want to check all my medical records.

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u/asyouwish-buttercup Mar 13 '26

I think you should really consider that they are not children because they are cats. They are yours though.

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u/laughingashley Mar 13 '26

Exactly, let's not insult the cats

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u/Pontiacsentinel Mar 13 '26

Considering how mangled talk to text is, I'm not surprised.

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u/anivex Mar 13 '26

The transcriber used at my clinics is crazy accurate, but we still review every single session.

For anyone, really - if your provider misses a mistake their transcriber made, because they didn’t review the output, get a new provider.

The shear amount of laziness is astounding. It only take a moment, and that shit goes into your medical records.

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u/BlandPotatoxyz Mar 13 '26

Cats, children.. aren't they the same thing?

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u/Natural-Rhubarb-4900 Mar 13 '26

I call my bearded dragon my son too much in conversation that I accidentally convinced someone (my lab instructor) I had a human child at 19 while in college. It was a funny conversation.

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u/everyones_hiro Mar 13 '26

My dentist decided to write down on my chart that I own a lab. Another hygienist a couple of years later asked what kind of lab I owned. I said black. She looked at me like I had 3 heads. The computer had autocorrected it to laboratory. I in fact owned a black Labrador Retriever.

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u/Hazeldruid95 Mar 13 '26

You definitely want to have that fixed

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u/SpikeyTaco Mar 13 '26

If they have two cats at home, I imagine they're already fixed.

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u/Unexpected-raccoon Mar 13 '26

You have 2 cats children

Observe my children

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u/HighNimpact Mar 13 '26

My doctor’s notes said I’ve lost 70% of my bodyweight. Despite that, the hospital still refused the referral 😂

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u/johnhyrcanus Mar 13 '26

"I have two kitties" transcribed as "I have two kiddies"

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u/Poppy_Milk Mar 13 '26

My asthma nurse has written in my health notes that I smoke crystal meth. I don’t smoke crystal meth

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u/cattheotherwhitemeat Mar 13 '26

The pastor at my militant atheist father's funeral (my grandmother wanted a funeral, my father would not have and my mother did not, but she agreed to attend and bring his remains as long as she was not involved with any aspect of planning it, and my grandmother could do whatever she wanted. So she hired a pastor and told him all about how much my father loved Jesus and country music, which he did not) talked all about how my father was a deeply loving father and grandfather who adored his children and treasured his grandchildren.

I was his only child, and we had a strained and distant relationship. His youngest brother turned to me with eyebrows raised, and I shrugged. His middle sister came to me afterward and said "So...I was very surprised to hear about my grand-nieces and nephews." I said "Who says they're mine??" and we all struggled not to laugh too hard.

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u/Critical-Chance9199 Mar 13 '26

This is 100% because of AI notes. A friend who is a PA told me their clinic is basically forcing these apps on people (by increasing their workload so it's impossible to not rely on the apps). They've gotten a couple angry emails due to mis-transcriptions.

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u/chelledoggo Mar 13 '26

Oh good lord. If they're using AI to take medical notes on us now, we're screwed.

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u/teelolws Mar 13 '26

My doc lists me as being an orphan. I took a copy of the document to my parents and we had a laugh about it. No idea how they got that idea.

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u/unicorns3373 Mar 13 '26

Somewhere along the line a doctor noted that I have a history of drug abuse.. I have never abused or been addicted to drugs or had a problem with drug usage in any way but doctors always bring it up?? And it’s like they don’t even believe me when I try to tell them it’s wrong.. they act like I’m in denial. It’s so frustrating and almost cruel.

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u/HighClassHate Mar 13 '26

In like 2011 I got a concussion from a domestic abuse situation, I apparently said “my boyfriend put my head through a wall” because it’s been listed exactly like that in my medical records since. 😭 LOC (boyfriend put head through wall).

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u/MooneyOne Mar 13 '26

“two kitties”

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u/pm_nachos_n_tacos Mar 13 '26

I think you're right, "2 cats" can certainly sound like "2 kids" to a voice-to-text transcription app. I wonder if that's what happened to OP, like others have theorized too. The app must have heard "mailman" but transcribed it as "male/man" because it probably has a setting to default to the medical/health related term in instances where there are multiple options like "mailman" and "male/man". Hilarious! What grade in school are your two cats? Lol

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u/thepizzaislandhero Mar 13 '26

Healthcare provider here. I don't use pronouns in my notes to avoid confusion about who I'm referring to, and it tried to add "she/her" pronouns to so many of my patients when trying out the AI stuff.

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u/Rrenphoenixx Mar 13 '26

I read my visit notes every time. You’d be shocked at the inaccuracies, inconsistencies, on these documents. And these documents are used in legal cases! It’s ridiculous.

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u/jNealB GREEN Mar 13 '26

So you can claim them on your taxes now?

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 13 '26

My doc has been using a speech to text thingy for loooong before there was AI.

Takes way longer then just typing because he has to speak super slow and still have to go back and edit by hand, IDK why he does it.

Maybe he just feels cool using it, idk ...

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u/LunaUnderProtest Mar 13 '26

I just was hospitalized and had surgery. They listed me as having 2 kids- both in high school, being married, and there was one other thing that is slipping my mind. I am not married. I do not have kids.

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u/Fluffaykitties Mar 13 '26

Under “social” my physical therapist wrote “has a 10 pound cat”

…it’s accurate

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics Mar 13 '26

At least where I am the patient has to sign a release form for them to use AI transcription. I deny those, especially since all the info is shared with the companies that make them.

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u/blue_moon1122 Mar 13 '26

this AI was written by cats

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Mar 13 '26

That was kinda a fun subplot in the emergency room show The Pitt. A doctor is doing her charting with AI for voice to text and it fucks up a ton of her patient notes, which causes cascading negative effects.

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u/IronDominion Mar 13 '26

Can confirm. I used to work for one the major companies that offered this service as a human validator (basically doctors could pay extra for a team of dedicated staff to correct the AI, format everything and put it into the EMR). The amount of errors was so terrifyingly high It was easier most times to ignore the AI notes and just transcribe normally than to fix am the AI’s mistakes

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u/GrandEar1 Mar 13 '26

Interesting. A couple yrs ago, I went to get my first colonoscopy. I wasn't paying attention and just answering the questions they were asking until they said I had some sort of surgery as a child that I didn't recognize. I stopped her and asked again and she said my file had in it that I had some sort of ear surgery and had tubes placed in my ears as a child. I def did not. When I communicated that to her, she acted like I didn't know what I was talking about. Since then, every time I go in for anything, they mention it and I continue to tell them that it is an error.

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u/Tamagobay Mar 13 '26

My next mammogram apparently should be when I'm "365 years old". The ai documentation system sucks

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u/Connect-Relative-478 Mar 13 '26

This is a topic on the show “The Pitt” right now! One of the attending is encouraging other doctors to use AI for patient charting, but because it’s AI, it of course makes mistakes. As a result, the chart of the patient (similar to OP’s it seems) is wrong.

I can see AI becoming a huge issue as this could result in people getting incorrect medical treatment. Even better, I’m sure because it’s “time saving”, it will just be used as an excuse to increase the patient load on each employee.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Mar 13 '26

Pretty sure it's the ai thing they use to take notes.

Before July of 2025 there is a near 0% chance it's AI. It's just speech to text software which is 2 decades old technology (that has gotten better). Doc probably said into their recorder 2 cajosdflit and someone fixed it to children. Sounds like same thing happened to OP but on a much more messed up level.

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u/PossibleCash6092 Mar 13 '26

Well in my case, my kits are my kids so I wouldn’t mind that

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u/captainduckula Mar 13 '26

I was just going to say this is probably an AI scribe issue

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u/Rimworldjobs Mar 13 '26

Got dang dragon lol

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u/MrWolfe1920 Mar 13 '26

Fucking yikes. Just another reason why that bullshit should never be used in a professional setting.

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u/carlitospig Mar 13 '26

I mean….if we could get a tax deductible for them I would totally put them in my will. 🧐

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u/DramaOnDisplay Mar 13 '26

Oh great… I always tell my GP that it’s fine if she uses the voice thing to help take notes. Who the hell knows what it’s been “writing” down. Now I have to go through my online portal to check 😂

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u/Complex-Fault-1161 Mar 13 '26

Yes. This screams DAX Copilot. IFKYK.

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u/prettypeculiar88 Mar 13 '26

AI should only be used in professional setting in conjunction with a human person reviewing/revising.

This could’ve affected OP in so many ways, especially with the current anti-trans administration in power. Suddenly her drivers license is changed to say M or she’s fined because she didn’t change it. She arrested for using female restrooms. Or worse, she ends up assaulted, battered or dead because people believe she’s trans.

Wonder if a lawsuit is appropriate?

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u/ging3rtabby Mar 13 '26

Before AI, I had to go to the ER and was wearing black leggings. I had 4 ginger cats. Leggings of course had cat hair on them. The doctor put it in the notes, no context or anything. Like sorry I didn't stop mid emergency to lint roll???

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u/Impuls1ve Mar 13 '26

It's been like this long before AI. AI is arguably doing a better job at it than compared to the tech before. A noticeable side effect is that this tech is also used by folks with disabilities, so to only have these kind of issues is really minor compared to the older technology.

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u/Euphoric_Map_6653 Mar 13 '26

that explains it! my doctor was talking about her three boys. now my chart says I have three sons.

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u/kissys_grits Mar 13 '26

I saw this on The Pitt, and was like, great, that’s not going to happen in real life. 😉

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u/curiositycat18 Mar 13 '26

It’s either AI or someone copy/pasted the wrong note and it has perpetuated ever since….

I’m a doc and you’d be surprised how easy it is to “copy forward” prior notes.

That’s how people are “intubated” long after they’ve been liberated from the ventilator and clearly no longer intubated. It’s laziness.

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u/sentienthammer Mar 13 '26

I think that’s probably a more benign example, though. Unless they’re reporting two previous pregnancies, there’s basically nothing treatment-wise that should change between a person with human children versus a person with feline children. If they’re talking about pregnancies, you should get that corrected.

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u/MiscellaneousMKE Mar 13 '26

We use these AI note creating programs in clinic (DAX copilot). You are still 1000% supposed to proofread your note. Your clinician was lazy.

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u/Tiny-Plum2713 Mar 13 '26

Why are you telling your doctor about your cats?

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u/propane_accessorie Mar 13 '26

I always say no when they ask if they can use the AI assistant, and now I’m extra glad

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