{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-31T07:56:21.697Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"clinician","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":4,"coverage":{"cases":4,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":3,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":2,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":4,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-patient-says-doctor-read-google-ai-search-summary-for-a-diagnosis-then-called-to-say-the-patient-was-right-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'one of my appointments, where a doctor pulled up Google on his computer, said, “Let’s ask Dr. Google,” and read the summary at the top of the page without clicking through to any of the sources'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that at one of their appointments a doctor pulled up Google on his computer, said \"Let's ask Dr. Google,\" and read the summary at the top of the page without clicking through to any of the sources.","causal_attribution":"Author's first-person account of the appointment."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Google a diagnosis, and read me the AI summary at the top of the results'; 'Spoiler alert: He was actually wrong.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In a Bluesky post linking the article, the author described the doctor as Googling a diagnosis and reading them the AI summary at the top of the results, and wrote that he was actually wrong.","causal_attribution":"The author identifies the summary as AI-generated and the doctor's answer as wrong; what the summary said is not described, so whether the error lay in the summary itself or in the doctor's reading of it is not established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'To his credit, he did call me to say I was right after I emailed to push back and essentially say, “I think you’re wrong, here are my sources. What am I missing?”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that the doctor called to say they were right after they emailed to push back, saying in effect that he was wrong and giving their sources.","causal_attribution":"Author's account of the correction."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I’d be 100% lying if I said that I wasn’t nervous to hit send on the emails to the doctors to question their diagnoses'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that they were nervous to send the emails questioning the doctors' diagnoses.","causal_attribution":"The author describes this for both diagnosis disputes in the article, only one of which involved the AI summary."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I definitely used AI when I was researching this diagnosis. But I didn’t just go with the first response Claude gave me'; 'I used Gemini to do deeper research and had it try to find holes in what Claude told me'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that they used Claude and Gemini to research the diagnosis, cross-checked them against other sources and read the cited sources themselves.","causal_attribution":"Context: the author's own AI-assisted research is how they challenged the doctor."}],"effects":[{"label":"a doctor's answer on a diagnosis, read from an AI search summary, that the doctor later agreed was wrong (author's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"nervousness at emailing the doctors to question their diagnoses (author's account)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the author researched the diagnosis with Claude and Gemini and read the cited sources (author's account)","claim_id":"c5","direction":"neutral"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/lets-ask-dr-google-blind-trust-ai-baba28829c6a","kind":"personal_blog","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-31. medium.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher and the Wayback Machine had no capture, so the full article text was read from the author's own Medium RSS feed (HTTP 200), which carries the complete article dated 26 October 2026.","independence_group":"author-dr-google-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/sarahdoody.bsky.social/post/3mz3w5eavmk23","kind":"social_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-31 through the public Bluesky API (post, thread with no replies, and the author's feed, HTTP 200). Same author as the article, so not independent of it.","independence_group":"author-dr-google-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use","own_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["What the AI summary said, what diagnosis was at issue, and whether the error lay in the summary or in the doctor's reading of it.","When the appointment took place; the article (26 October 2026) gives no date, and the Bluesky post of 30 October 2026 does not either.","Which Google feature produced the summary; the author calls it the AI summary at the top of the results.","Whether the wrong answer affected any treatment before it was corrected.","Where the appointment took place."],"geography":{"basis":"The article and the post do not say where the appointment took place or where the author lives.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case: the author says a doctor answered a diagnosis question by reading Google's AI search summary aloud during the appointment, that the answer was wrong, and that the doctor agreed after the author pushed back with sources. First-person account, low severity.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-31"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The author writes that during their appointment a doctor searched Google for a diagnosis and read them the AI-generated summary at the top of the results without opening any sources, and that the doctor's answer was wrong; after the author emailed sources, the doctor called to say the author was right. The output was used in the doctor's answer to the patient. What the summary said is not described.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["informed_decision_about"]},"name":"First-person account: patient says a doctor read Google's AI search summary for a diagnosis and later called to say the patient was right","summary":"In an article published on Medium on 26 October 2026 and a Bluesky post on 30 October, a writer says that at one appointment a doctor said \"Let's ask Dr. Google\", searched for a diagnosis and read the AI summary at the top of the results without opening any sources. The writer says the doctor was wrong; after they emailed him their sources and asked what they were missing, he called to say they were right. They say they were nervous to send the emails, and that their own research used Claude and Gemini, cross-checked against the cited sources. The article does not say what the summary said, what the diagnosis was, or when the appointment took place.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-26","aiSystem":"AI-generated summary at the top of Google search results, as described by the patient; feature name not given","aiProduct":"Google Search AI summary (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The author says a doctor gave them a wrong answer on a diagnosis after reading Google's AI search summary aloud, and that they had to research and nervously challenge it by email before the doctor agreed (first-person account; no effect on treatment is reported).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the author, the patient about whom the doctor used the AI summary; the author was not the AI user.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/lets-ask-dr-google-blind-trust-ai-baba28829c6a","primarySourceLabel":"Medium (Bootcamp), 26 Oct 2026: \"Let’s ask Dr. Google: The risk of blind trust in AI\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-31T03:25:14.801466+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-31T03:25:14.801466+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","blog","bluesky","health","clinician","ai-search-summary"]},{"id":"2026-california-patient-says-urgent-care-discharge-instructions-were-printed-chatgpt-answers-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The paperwork reportedly turned out to be written by ChatGPT.'; 'showing that the paperwork consisted of printed ChatGPT responses. The documents also included what appeared to be previous chat prompts, with labels such as'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The patient says the discharge paperwork and at-home treatment plan she received after seeking care consisted of printed ChatGPT responses, including what appeared to be earlier chat prompts with labels such as Aftercare Instruction Request.","causal_attribution":"The patient's account as relayed by The Nerd Stash; the clinic's account is not known."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'had i blindly followed, would have likely ended up in bowel perforation given my history, genetic disorder, scar tissue and previous surgeries** source : other doctors who I asked'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'She stressed that her medical needs required professional attention rather than advice generated by ChatGPT.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The patient says that, had she followed the instructions blindly, they would likely have led to bowel perforation given her history, genetic disorder, scar tissue and previous surgeries, citing other doctors she asked.","causal_attribution":"The patient's assessment, attributed by her to other doctors she consulted; no clinician is quoted directly."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'referring to her decision not to follow the instructions'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The patient did not follow the instructions.","causal_attribution":"The patient's account as relayed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'identifying the facility in a comment as allegedly'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The patient identified the facility in a comment, which the report names as allegedly an urgent-care clinic.","causal_attribution":"Identification made by the patient in a comment, relayed with the qualifier 'allegedly'; the record does not name the clinic."}],"effects":[{"label":"discharge instructions printed from ChatGPT that, by the patient's account, would likely have caused serious harm given her condition","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@tara_rule/video/7701541220853533966","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-31: the caption and creation time of the video were read from the TikTok page data (HTTP 200). The spoken content of the video was not transcribed by the agent; it is known only through the relay. No translation and no human reviewer.","independence_group":"patient-tiktok-chatgpt-discharge"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://thenerdstash.com/outrage-after-california-woman-receives-hospital-discharge-papers-written-by-chatgpt-begging-you-to-speak-with-a-lawyer/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-31 (HTTP 200, full article). The report relays the patient's videos, caption and comments; it is not independent of her account. No translation and no human reviewer.","independence_group":"patient-tiktok-chatgpt-discharge"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["Which clinic it was (the identification rests on the patient's comment) and the clinic's account.","Who generated the ChatGPT text and whether a clinician reviewed it before it was given to her.","The date of the visit and the condition she sought care for.","The exact content of the instructions; the agent did not transcribe the video and relies on the caption and the relay."],"geography":{"basis":"The Nerd Stash describes the patient as a California woman, which places the affected person in the US. The facility is identified only through the patient's comment as relayed, so no event country is recorded from residence.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a first-person account of a clinic handing a patient printed ChatGPT output as her discharge instructions, which she says other doctors judged likely to cause serious harm given her condition. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the clinic's response is unknown.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-31"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The patient says the clinic's discharge and aftercare instructions for her were printed ChatGPT responses, and the relay describes the printouts as including earlier chat prompts with labels such as Aftercare Instruction Request. The AI output is therefore the text of her treatment plan, which the clinic used in discharging her, and the reported harm is that the plan was, by her account and that of other doctors she asked, unsafe for her condition. Who generated the text and whether a clinician reviewed it are not stated.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["informed_decision_about"]},"name":"California patient says urgent-care discharge papers were printed ChatGPT answers that other doctors told her were unsafe for her condition (first-person)","summary":"In a TikTok video posted on 28 October 2026, a woman described as living in California says the discharge paperwork and at-home treatment plan she received after a visit for care consisted of printed ChatGPT responses, which, according to a 30 October report by The Nerd Stash, included what appeared to be earlier chat prompts with labels such as \"Aftercare Instruction Request\". In a comment she identified the facility, which the report names only as allegedly an urgent-care clinic. She describes herself as medically complex, with a rare genetic disorder. In her caption she writes that, had she followed the instructions blindly, they would likely have led to bowel perforation given her history, citing other doctors she asked. She did not follow them. The clinic's account, the clinician involved and the date of the visit are not known.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-28","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, as the patient identifies the printed responses she was given as discharge paperwork; who at the clinic generated them is not stated","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A patient says the discharge instructions an urgent-care clinic gave her were printed ChatGPT output that, by her account and that of other doctors she consulted, would likely have caused bowel perforation given her condition; she did not follow them (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the patient who received the paperwork. Viewers and commenters are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.tiktok.com/@tara_rule/video/7701541220853533966","primarySourceLabel":"TikTok video and caption by the patient, 28 Oct 2026: discharge instructions printed from ChatGPT","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-31T03:08:45.567738+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-31T03:08:45.567738+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","tiktok","chatgpt","health","discharge-instructions"]},{"id":"2025-san-diego-health-system-patient-alleges-ai-scribe-recorded-exam-room-visit-without-consent","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court claims Sharp HealthCare secretly recorded doctor-patient conversations using an artificial intelligence tool'; 'The tool records conversations between patients and clinicians and then generates draft medical notes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A recent lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges that Sharp HealthCare recorded conversations between doctors and their patients without written consent, using the information to document visits with an artificial intelligence program developed by a private company in Pittsburgh.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'A lawsuit in San Diego claims Sharp Healthcare recorded doctor visits without written consent, while using an A.I. tool called Abridge to take notes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A proposed class action filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges that Sharp HealthCare used the AI app Abridge, which records patient-clinician conversations and generates draft medical notes, and recorded doctor-patient conversations without patients' consent.","causal_attribution":"The complaint's allegations, relayed by three outlets (one underlying origin: the complaint); not tested in court in the sources read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Sharp began using an AI app called Abridge in April of this year, according to the complaint.'; 'sent the audio to the company’s servers, where employees could review it.'; 'Patients were never informed that their appointments were being recorded or given an opportunity to consent or opt-out, the lawsuit alleges.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Recordings, the lawsuit states, were transmitted to Abridge'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the complaint, Sharp began using Abridge in April 2025, and the app captured everything said in the exam room and sent the audio to the company's servers, where employees could review it; patients were never informed or given a chance to consent or opt out.","causal_attribution":"Complaint allegations; the start date and server review detail are in the KPBS relay only, the transmission to Abridge in both."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'said he discovered the recording only after reading his medical notes from a July appointment at a Sharp Rees-Stealy clinic. When he contacted Sharp, the lawsuit said the clinic apologized, acknowledged the recording occurred and told him the file could remain on the vendor’s servers for about a month before being deleted.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The plaintiff says he discovered that a July appointment at a Sharp clinic had been recorded only after reading his medical notes; according to the lawsuit the clinic apologised, acknowledged the recording and said the file could remain on the vendor's servers for about a month.","causal_attribution":"The plaintiff's account in the complaint as reported by KPBS; Sharp's acknowledgement is as described in the lawsuit, not a Sharp statement read directly."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'It also claims that Abridge automatically inserted incorrect statements into medical charts, documenting that patients “were advised” the visit was being recorded and that they “consented,” even when the patient said it never happened.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that Abridge automatically inserted incorrect statements into medical charts documenting that patients were advised the visit was being recorded and consented, even when the patient said it never happened.","causal_attribution":"Complaint allegation relayed by KPBS only; whether the tool or a clinician produced the entries is not established in the sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The lawsuit seeks damages, corrections to medical records, and a court order blocking the use of the AI tool without proper consent. It estimates that more than 100,000 Sharp patients may have been recorded during the rollout.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'seeks class action status and damages that could reach five thousand dollars per violation.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The lawsuit seeks class status, damages, corrections to medical records and an order blocking use of the tool without consent, and estimates that more than 100,000 Sharp patients may have been recorded.","causal_attribution":"The relief sought and the estimate are the complaint's; the estimate is of people possibly recorded."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Both Sharp and Counterpoint Legal said they cannot comment on pending litigation.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Sharp said that while \"patient safety and privacy are our top priorities at all times,\" it is \"unable to comment on pending litigation.\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Sharp said patient safety and privacy are its top priorities and that it could not comment on pending litigation.","causal_attribution":"Sharp's statements to two outlets (one party); no response to the substance of the allegations is reported."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Abridge suggests that doctors could say, \"I will be using a tool that records our conversation to help me write my clinical note, so I can pay more attention to our conversation and less time on the computer. Is that okay with you?\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Other local hospitals say they use similar tech, but with patient permission.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Abridge's support material suggests consent language clinicians could use with patients, and other San Diego providers using similar tools say they require patient consent.","causal_attribution":"Context from the Union-Tribune's review of Abridge's support pages and both outlets' comments from other providers; not a statement about this visit."}],"effects":[{"label":"confidential clinic visit recorded and sent to an AI vendor without the patient’s knowledge (alleged)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"chart entry stating consent the patient says he never gave (alleged)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2025/12/11/lawsuit-claims-sharp-healthcare-secretly-recorded-exam-room-conversations-without-patient-consent","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English original; no translation.","independence_group":"kpbs-11-dec-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-ai-exam-room-lawsuit-alleges.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English original; no translation.","independence_group":"san-diego-union-tribune-6-jan-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ai-in-the-exam-room-lawsuit-says-not-so-fast/ar-AA1TG8JK","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English original; no translation.","independence_group":"san-diego-union-tribune-6-jan-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["health","privacy"],"unknowns":["Whether a court has ruled on the complaint or certified a class.","Sharp's and Abridge's response to the substance of the allegations.","How many patients were recorded without consent; the 100,000 figure is the complaint's estimate of patients who may have been recorded.","Whether the consent statements in charts were produced by the tool or entered by clinicians, beyond the complaint's allegation.","Whether recordings were used for anything beyond note generation."],"geography":{"basis":"The recorded visit was at a Sharp clinic and the suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court (KPBS; Union-Tribune). The plaintiff's country of residence is not stated.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a privacy-capture case (received_personal_information) under the 2026-10-06 boundary: a reported complaint describes a patient's confidential visit actually being recorded into an AI documentation service and sent to its vendor without his knowledge, with the AI-generated chart allegedly stating he consented (made_claim_about). All facts are attributed to the complaint.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"According to the complaint as reported by KPBS and the San Diego Union-Tribune, Sharp's AI documentation app Abridge recorded the conversation at the plaintiff's July clinic visit and transmitted the audio to Abridge's servers to generate draft notes, without his knowledge or consent; the lawsuit says the clinic acknowledged the recording. The complaint also alleges that Abridge inserted chart statements that he had been advised and had consented. That capture and disclosure of his confidential visit, and the false consent entry, are the reported harm. These are allegations not yet tested in court.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["received_personal_information","made_claim_about"]},"name":"Class action alleges San Diego health system Sharp's Abridge AI scribe recorded a patient's exam-room visit without consent and charted false consent","summary":"A proposed class action filed in San Diego Superior Court in late 2025 alleges that Sharp HealthCare, which began using the AI documentation app Abridge in April 2025, recorded doctor-patient conversations without telling patients, sent the audio to the vendor's servers and used it to generate draft medical notes. According to the lawsuit as reported by KPBS, the named plaintiff discovered that a July appointment at a Sharp clinic had been recorded only when he read his medical notes; the clinic apologised, acknowledged the recording and told him the file could stay on the vendor's servers for about a month. The complaint also alleges that Abridge inserted statements into charts that patients had been advised of the recording and had consented, when the plaintiff says that never happened. It seeks damages, corrected medical records and an order against using the tool without consent, and estimates that more than 100,000 patients may have been recorded. Sharp told reporters it could not comment on pending litigation. The allegations have not been tested in court in the sources read.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-12-11","aiSystem":"Abridge, an AI clinical documentation app that, according to the complaint as reported, records patient-clinician conversations and generates draft medical notes; deployed by Sharp HealthCare from April 2025","aiProduct":"Abridge (reported)","aiCompany":"Abridge","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_autonomy","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to a proposed class action, a patient's confidential clinic visit was recorded by an AI documentation tool and sent to its vendor without his knowledge or consent, and his chart falsely recorded that he had consented.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the named plaintiff whose July visit, the lawsuit says, was recorded (KPBS). The complaint alleges other patients were recorded without consent but gives only an estimate that more than 100,000 'may have been recorded', which is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2025/12/11/lawsuit-claims-sharp-healthcare-secretly-recorded-exam-room-conversations-without-patient-consent","primarySourceLabel":"KPBS, 11 December 2025: lawsuit claims Sharp HealthCare secretly recorded exam room conversations without patient consent","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-17T03:04:33.888418+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-17T03:04:33.888418+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_scribe","ambient_documentation","recording_without_consent","medical_privacy","class_action"]},{"id":"2026-abc-ai-medical-scribe-false-drug-use-record","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'she was asked whether she consented to having the appointment transcribed by artificial intelligence (AI)'; 'with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that'; 'it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life'; 'only picked up the mistake after her kidney stone surgery in March, when she read the post-operative letter her specialist sent to her GP'; 'micro-dosed mushrooms and that could be the reason for prior bleeding around the kidneys'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The patient consented to AI transcription of her first urology appointment; after her March 2026 kidney-stone surgery she found that the post-operative letter to her GP stated she micro-dosed mushrooms and that this could explain earlier bleeding around the kidneys, a claim she says is false.","causal_attribution":"Patient's account to ABC; the attribution of the false entry to the AI scribe is hers and ABC's framing."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I was gobsmacked and in tears'; 'was particularly stressed as she was receiving workers' compensation and felt any mention of illegal drugs on her medical record could impact her case'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She reported distress and feared the entry could affect her workers' compensation case.","causal_attribution":"Patient's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the urologist sent a letter apologising'; 'Please be assured that we take the accuracy of our documentation very seriously, and we are truly sorry that this occurred'; 'it appeared to be from an error during the \"dictation or transcription process\"'; 'The urologist corrected the correspondence and in her letter said she would review how AI was used in her practice'; 'The doctor did not provide any responses to the ABC's questions about what changes, if any, have been made since'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After her complaint the urologist apologised in writing, said the cause could not be determined but appeared to be an error in the dictation or transcription process, corrected the correspondence and said she would review her use of AI; she did not answer ABC's questions about changes made.","causal_attribution":"Doctor's letter as quoted by ABC; the doctor does not confirm the scribe as the origin."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'AHPRA, said clinicians must always check all output from an AI scribe for accuracy to ensure they meet their professional obligations'; 'said it was clear her doctor did not do this'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"AHPRA told ABC that clinicians must always check all output from an AI scribe for accuracy; the patient said it was clear her doctor had not.","causal_attribution":"Regulator comment and patient's view; context for the case."}],"effects":[{"label":"a false claim of psychedelic-mushroom use entered the patient's medical record and reached her GP; distress and fear for her workers' compensation case","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the correspondence was corrected and the doctor apologised after the patient complained","claim_id":"c3","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200; saved body 402,866 bytes). Feature by the ABC Specialist Reporting Team based on the patient's interview and the letters she received, plus regulator and peak-body comment.","independence_group":"abc-news-2026-08-14"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["The AI scribe product and vendor are not named.","The location of the clinic and the patient's residence are not stated.","The date of the appointment at which the transcription was made is not stated. The report gives the surgery as 'in March' without a year; 2026 is taken from the 14 August 2026 publication date.","Whether the false claim originated in the scribe's output or in a later dictation or editing step is not established; the doctor's letter says the cause could not be determined.","What changes the practice made afterwards are not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"No inspected source states where the appointment or the patient is located. The ABC report frames the case within Australian regulation (AHPRA, RACGP, TGA) and quotes Australian bodies, but does not locate the patient or the clinic, so the event and affected-person countries are left unknown rather than inferred from the publisher. No court proceeding.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an everyday-assistance and health case in which an AI system made a false claim about a person in her medical record, with reported distress and a corrected record. Single ABC News report read in full; claims recorded as reported and attributed to the patient and the doctor's letter. The patient is named in the report but not in this record; the doctor and clinic are unnamed.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The patient told ABC that the appointment was transcribed by an AI scribe with her consent and that the false mushroom claim appeared in the resulting post-operative letter; the doctor's apology attributes the claim to an error during the 'dictation or transcription process' without confirming the scribe as the origin. The product is not named. Single ABC report.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Reported by ABC News (Australia): an AI scribe used at a urology appointment inserted a false claim that the patient took psychedelic mushrooms into her record; the error reached her GP in a post-operative letter and was corrected only after she complained","summary":"A patient who consented to having her first urology appointment transcribed by an artificial-intelligence scribe discovered, after her kidney-stone surgery in March 2026, that the post-operative letter her specialist sent to her GP stated she micro-dosed psychedelic mushrooms and that this could explain earlier bleeding around the kidneys. She says she has never taken mushrooms. She was receiving workers' compensation and feared that any mention of illegal drugs on her medical record could affect her case. After she complained, the urologist sent a letter of apology saying the practice takes documentation accuracy seriously, that she could not determine how the claim came to be included but that it appeared to be an error during the 'dictation or transcription process', that the correspondence had been corrected and that she would review how AI was used in her practice. The doctor did not answer ABC's questions about what changes had been made. Australia's practitioner regulator AHPRA told ABC that clinicians must check all AI-scribe output; the patient says it was clear her doctor had not. The account is a single ABC News report (14 August 2026) based on the patient's interview and the letters she received; the scribe product and the clinic's location are not named.","incidentDate":"2026-03-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-14","aiSystem":"AI medical scribe (product not named in the report)","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI medical scribe","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The patient reports distress ('gobsmacked and in tears') and fear for her workers' compensation case after a false illegal-drug claim entered her medical record and was sent to her GP; the record was corrected after her complaint. The false entry is attributed by the patient to the AI scribe and by the doctor to an error in the dictation or transcription process.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One patient whose record carried the false claim (ABC report). The clinician used the AI tool, so the patient is counted as another person harmed rather than a participant user. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News (Specialist Reporting Team), 14 August 2026: Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:28:12.119063+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:22.846812+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-scribe","medical-records","health","transcription-error","false-record","workers-compensation","abc-news"]}]}