Currently on the US docket: allowing AI to become your medication prescriber
I am the first to admit that the medical industrial complex is a dumpster fire. But if you wanna add gasoline to that…..then let AI be your prescriber.
In what can only be described as a HUGE disaster……Rep Schweikert of Arizona has proposed this bill. Why you ask? Well, one of his biggest campaign contributors is CVS. Yes, THAT CVS.
Here is the article discussing how CVS wants to revamp healthcare with the use of AI:
https://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/cvs-health-paves-path-to-better-care-with-data-ai-5156bf84
This is a hard pass. Period. Check out @Mdbreathe on X for a great conversation about this.
I feel like this is just formalizing the "Pharma Flowchart" nature of medicine. Sort of like how they'll want AI to teach your kids.
Hard pass for me!
Re the loser from Arizona who apparently thinks adding gasoline is a good idea, my father comes to mind. The stunning stupidity that he saw everywhere -- back then! -- would sometimes prompt him to ponder, "How can some people be so stupid...and still live?"
Our current circumstances remind me on the regular of my father's woeful pondering. Schweikert is the latest -- and yet another -- public example that warrants my father's question.