CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
Me: "The AI note says the patient denied recent travel."
Resident: "He's been intubated since Tuesday."
Me: "So it interviewed him spiritually."
Send this to the resident who catches the AI's inventions before you do.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Ambient AI scribes are documented to fabricate plausible-sounding clinical details that were never said, which the signing physician must catch.
Documented 2026 complaint that ambient AI scribes invent details 'out of thin air' (IHS Online; PMC12492056). Intubated patients cannot give a verbal review of systems.
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