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Refuse to let your doctor record you

Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney give 9 reasons to refuse AI medical scribes. The tools record visits and draft chart notes, raising privacy, consent, automation-bias, and speech-recognition disparity risks. The key concern is clinics converting saved time into more visits.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the title has a sharp healthcare-AI hook, the post explains the audio-to-chart-note mechanism and 9 risk areas, and privacy/consent will travel. It is commentary without hard data, so it stays in the 72–77 band.

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