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highplainsdem

(60,775 posts)
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 02:16 PM Monday

Dr. Oz: "Whether you want it or not" the best way to help rural communities with health care will be "AI-based avatars"

Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-02T19:06:19.344Z
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Dr. Oz: "Whether you want it or not" the best way to help rural communities with health care will be "AI-based avatars" (Original Post) highplainsdem Monday OP
Thanks Oprah n/t leftstreet Monday #1
Let's thank her for Faux pas Monday #6
She's mentioned in the Epstein files. yardwork Monday #12
Big bucks Faux pas Wednesday #20
"You get a simulacrum of a doctor! You get a simulacrum of a doctor! You get a simulacrum of a doctor!" RockRaven Monday #2
The rural population are the ones that suffer and Klarkashton Monday #3
Hey Dr. Oz - fuck you! Initech Monday #4
"...the best way to help some of these communities..." WestMichRad Monday #5
Science fiction writer John Scalzi's response: highplainsdem Monday #7
From Axios: Diamond_Dog Monday #8
Get wrecked, Oz. area51 Monday #9
Nope................. Lovie777 Monday #10
fuckoz spanone Monday #11
! Marcuse Monday #13
More like this, a robot dispensing pills: hunter Monday #18
Spoken like a rapist... "whether you want it or not." Tanuki Monday #14
No. SheltieLover Monday #15
he means cheapest, not best eShirl Monday #16
The rich can have human, concierge health care RussBLib Monday #17
But Medicare payments for Telehealth (talking to real people) ended last month wishstar Monday #19
"I'm John Cena. You might have some questions about your recent diagnosis..." Prairie Gates Wednesday #21

RockRaven

(18,924 posts)
2. "You get a simulacrum of a doctor! You get a simulacrum of a doctor! You get a simulacrum of a doctor!"
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 02:20 PM
Monday
Whether you want it or not.

Initech

(107,948 posts)
4. Hey Dr. Oz - fuck you!
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 02:22 PM
Monday

And no, we don't want AI based health care. Get out of here with that shit.

WestMichRad

(3,059 posts)
5. "...the best way to help some of these communities..."
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 02:22 PM
Monday

“… that we’re willing to provide…”

FIFY, you willingly conspiratorial arsehole.

highplainsdem

(60,775 posts)
7. Science fiction writer John Scalzi's response:
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 02:31 PM
Monday

Reporting in from rural America: This piece of shit can fuck right off, give us actual fucking doctors and nurses

John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2026-02-02T19:20:26.344Z

Diamond_Dog

(40,064 posts)
8. From Axios:
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 02:44 PM
Monday

Driving the news: Oz said AI and robotics can be part of the solution for parts of America that don't have access to critical medical care, like obstetricians and mental health services.

"Within the next three years, before our administration is done, we will be using agentic AI to accelerate our ability to take care of people, especially when they're in places where we don't have access to care," Oz said at the Axios House event.

More than one-third of U.S. counties don't have any obstetricians, midwives or birthing centers. More than 500 hospitals have closed OB units since 2010.

How it works: One idea that has been proposed is to "use robots to do ultrasounds on pregnant women," Oz said. "Robots can do it. We already have simple systems that are effective."

There are also technologies under development "where you can take a wand, you don't even see the image, you get digitized insights back that tell you whether the child's OK or not."

"And frankly, I don't have to see the image. I just have to know if the image is good enough to tell me the child doesn't have a problem," Oz said.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/22/dr-oz-davos-ai-medical-health

***** Robots doing an ultrasound on a pregnant woman and Oz says the doctor doesn’t even need to see the results?!?! I suppose they will create a robot to deliver the baby, too?!?! And they wonder why women are saying NO to birthing babies in this country?!?!

RussBLib

(10,464 posts)
17. The rich can have human, concierge health care
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 03:57 PM
Monday

….while the poor get the robots and avatars. Not really sure which would be better.

wishstar

(5,810 posts)
19. But Medicare payments for Telehealth (talking to real people) ended last month
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 04:48 PM
Monday

Many of us were able have Medicare reimbursements for talking to our doctors and health care professionals remotely during pandemic such as to get prescriptions approved for Paxlovid. But my understanding is that this Medicare benefit was not extended beyond Jan 2026.

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