Linda Acaster
2 min readJan 21, 2025

Just wait until it cancels your must-have medication because its algorithms consider the med costs do not equal the advantage of keeping you alive. And customer service rep is also AI.

Think I'm joking? General Practitioners in the UK follow "guidelines" as if they are mandatory regulations, ticking checklists as they go. There is a lot of talk about introducing AI to "speed things up".

We all know, or should know, of the Canadian disabled vet who requested an aid to make her life easier. She was refused, but was offered a euthenasia pill instead.

How long under AI before that becomes mandatory?

In the UK we have a National Health Service, free at the point of delivery, paid for by our taxes. I am refused the blood panel I need because its initial test insists I don't have the condition I suffer from, and therefore the rest of the panel is automatically cancelled.

Because that initial test result is written on my Notes, the ENT hospital consultant insists I don't have the condition - because it says so on my Notes, despite my having a slowly enlarging 2.4x1.6x1.2 inch fibrous growth on my thyroid. The consultant explained this as, "Lots of ladies over the age of 40 have swellings on their thyroid - it's normal". Which has, of course, now been added to my Notes for my GP to point to when I'm attempting to fight my corner.

Who needs AI when we already have automatons?

And before anyone freaks, I purchase my own blood tests to keep an eye on my condition. But the point here is, I'm not most people. I read up about my condition.

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Linda Acaster
Linda Acaster

Written by Linda Acaster

British multi-genre fiction author who haunts historical sites - check out her publication 'Escape Into History'. For novel links: www.lindaacaster.com

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Oh, don't get me started. There are so many examples: can't change my mother's mailing address because the USPS robot thinks she lives at a business (it's an assisted living facility). The list is just too long.

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