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Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

2026-05-18 · r/technology

Ontario auditors discovered that AI note-taking tools used by doctors are routinely botching basic medical facts — because nothing says 'trust the process' like an algorithm that can't tell a broken arm from a headache. These AI scribes are supposed to save doctors time, but instead they're generating medical records full of errors that could actually harm patients. Turns out letting a hallucination-prone chatbot handle your health records was exactly as smart as it sounds.

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