I’ve thought about declining this, but I’ve been worried it will just annoy the doctor and as a result they’ll (intentionally or not) put in less effort.
Don’t be a pu$$y stand up for yourself. Your passive nature in this moment hurts us all. They work for you. If they don’t then whats their purpose. THINK… If there ever was a time to be a diva… welp it is NOW… Dig in them heels til they strike OIL NO MEANS NO
The ol merikkklan healthcaredon’tcare system. Yeah trust me bro…let the chatgipity do my work for me so the corpos can just do a blanket deny and be no help to no one except those at the top who steal or leak our personal data to criminals. Maybe on purpose. I would just walk out the office. Plain and simple.
Finally, an actual reason not to go to the doctor.
So, therapists are starting to use this because it simplifies notetaking, which is actually a big behind-the-scenes thing. Therapists have to maintain sometimes multiple sets of notes on each patient: one for insurance/billing, one for their records, one that can be viewed by you on-demand, one for judges or other individuals involved in a person’s treatments. When it comes to billing notes, it’s a formulaic thing they’re doing to justify your treatment, they basically extract a few quotes to keep your insurance company paying for whatever it is they think they’re paying for. Insurance doesn’t just write check a check every week saying “hope you talked about fun stuff.” Treatment plans have to be done and progress accounted for. Even if those treatment plans are just to satisfy a beancounter reading the reports.
And it it turns out this is actually all a great use for AI, summarizing and filing - it doesn’t need to be creating, just distilling. And as such a therapist can see more patients, or have more time with their families (being a therapist is cognitively stressful, you can’t just zone out or scroll on Tiktok when you get bored).
At the same time, every therapist I know (I’m married to one, have a kid with another, and a lot my friends are therapists - plus my own) is experimenting and won’t feel the least bit upset if you say “no.” They are trying to get a feel for what patients are OK with.
I let my therapist use it. We’re doing a very specific modality and I’m not the least bit worried about that being recorded.
But if I were detailing my own childhood rape or something, I might not feel the same way, IDK.
Just communicate with them honestly.
NO AI EVER
