There are many cases where listening to AI almost costs the price with health, even life.
Recently, a 38-year-old woman in Ho Chi Minh City was diagnosed with dyslipidemia and prescribed treatment by a doctor. However, after asking AI, she stopped taking herbal medicine and switched to using herbs to naturally reduce blood fat. A few months later, she was hospitalized for chest pain, shortness of breath, and was diagnosed with anemia myocardial, narrowing coronary artery. The doctor said that stopping medicine as suggested by AI will make the disease worse and increase the risk of complications.
Similarly, Ms. Thai Thi Hang (36 years old, Ho Chi Minh City) often uses AI to "examine" her child. The application mistakenly diagnosed dengue fever as viral fever, causing her child to fall into severe shock and be hospitalized for more than a week.
Many people are abusing AI as a free doctor, forgetting that only a real doctor can examine, touch, tap, listen and comprehensively evaluate a patient, warned Dr. Truong Huu Khanh - former Head of the Department of Neurological Infections, Children's Hospital 1 HCMC.
Not only parents, but many young people also absolutely believe in chatbots. In the case of Mr. T.K.T (21 years old, Dong Thap) who was "dygnosed" by AI for heart failure and advised to take blood pressure medicine for a month, he was completely normal when he underwent a health check-up.
According to Dr. Truong Thi Ngoc Lan - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Traditional Medicine, many people with chronic diseases stop treatment and arbitrarily buy medicine according to AI instructions. When they return to the hospital, the disease is getting worse, even with dangerous complications.
Dr. Vo Van Tan - Head of the Department of Neurology, Gia Dinh People's Hospital - emphasized: "AI should only be used for reference. Each person has a different background, underlying disease, and medication. It is impossible to diagnose through a few lines of description".
Doctors recommend that AI, online doctors or online doctors can help people understand more about the disease, but cannot replace clinical examination. Self-dygnosis and AI treatment can make the disease worse, prolong treatment time, and even threaten life.
