Patient stops a potentially lethal antibiotic after asking ChatGPT; her doctor had five minutes to read the chart
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-15
A viral case shared by Google's early employee Guido van Rossum: a hospital nearly prescribed a patient an antibiotic that would have killed her. She caught it in time after asking ChatGPT, while her doctor admitted he "only had five minutes to read her chart" and missed the critical allergy information.
The reposter frames the broader debate: doctors, lawyers, and experts may not like it, but ordinary people's lack of access to knowledge is a barrier to development, health, and exercising rights. Spreading knowledge access matters more than protecting those who monopolized it — and AI is becoming that access point.
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