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Sympthsical

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1. Take it from a current nursing student

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2026, 12:39 PM

18 hrs ago

Chatbots are often extremely wrong on medical matters and interventions.

I don't trust it with my assignments. I would never attempt to actually help someone with it.

That said. Nursing schools use AI to teach students. Sherpath AI is a thing.

It's only middling useful to me and often find myself even double checking that. And that is something they tell us to use, that our program is forcing us to pay for.

Gonna be a funny little world in five to ten years.

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Real-life horror story about a leukemia patient who died after AI gave him a misdiagnosis & he rejected doctors' advice [View all] highplainsdem 18 hrs ago OP

Take it from a current nursing student Sympthsical 18 hrs ago #1

Have these tools improved at all over the course of your time at school? fujiyamasan 6 hrs ago #12

Or for legal advice or for a girlfriend displacedvermoter 18 hrs ago #2

It's weird how much trust people put into these things JI7 18 hrs ago #3

Those chatbots are designed to both sound authoritative and to flatter the AI user to keep them highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #4

Indeed. On particular reader comment confirms as much: markpkessinger 15 hrs ago #7

Humans aren't rational creatures Kaleva 17 hrs ago #5

Don't trust AI for anything! mwmisses4289 16 hrs ago #6

At the end of the day AI is nothing more than a computer program PCB66 13 hrs ago #8

Now everyone can ask an ersatz doctor for an ersatz diagnosis! struggle4progress 12 hrs ago #9

One of the reasons I'm very glad I retired from being a peds NP was people wanting telehealth... 3catwoman3 7 hrs ago #10

I use it to get advice about my pt but then Tree Lady 6 hrs ago #11