From boutique clinics in Mexico to medical spas in Europe to top-tier academic medical centers in the U.S., healthcare organizations courting medical tourists are enjoying boom times.

The AMA doesn’t refute much of the Trump AI Action Plan so much as amplify some of its talking points. One exception is the plan’s open disdain for ‘woke’ AI.

If humanistic medicine is to endure the slow-motion AI tsunami flooding the healthcare landscape, humans will have to see those two forces—humanistic medicine and healthcare AI—not as oppositional to each other but as potentially synergistic. 

When dissatisfied patients slam provider entities in online reviews, they tend to focus on administrative frustrations and thwarted requests. By contrast, satisfied healthcare consumers write quick, list-like rundowns of things that pleased them. 

Customers with these devices on hand are asked to return them right away. No serious injuries have been reported at this time, but the presence of residual particulates can lead to such side effects as pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.

Boston Scientific manufactured these devices from 2002 to 2021, and approximately 354,000 are still in use. It is recommended that clinicians look for early signs of this issue during scheduled follow-up appointments.

The question of legal responsibility for AI gone wrong in healthcare remains unsettled. The only sure thing is a lot of finger pointing. 

Wearable health devices outfitted with AI seem poised to transition from consumer novelties to an integral layer of U.S. public-health intelligence.