Doctor's AI-Generated Insult to Patient Sparks Outrage in South Korea

A South Korean patient's child expressed outrage after discovering a doctor had printed an AI-generated remark describing their mother as unintelligent and engaged in manual labor directly onto her medical treatment guide. The incident, shared on an online community, has ignited public anger.

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The patient is not intelligent and does manual labor, so explain it in an easy-to-understand way.

The child, identified as A 씨, recounted the shock of reading the treatment document provided to their mother after a visit to a pain management clinic. The document contained the phrase, "The patient is not intelligent and does manual labor, so explain it in an easy-to-understand way." A 씨 stated that the doctor's command to the AI was printed verbatim, without any changes.

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I was so upset and felt like my blood was boiling seeing that the patient who came for treatment was being demeaned and categorized like this behind their back.

"I was so upset and felt like my blood was boiling seeing that the patient who came for treatment was being demeaned and categorized like this behind their back," A 씨 wrote. The child also expressed deep regret and guilt for recommending the clinic to their mother, who had previously attended a different hospital.

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Doctor's license should be revoked. Reveal the hospital's name. How great do you have to be to look at people with such contempt?

The online community reacted strongly, with many condemning the doctor's actions. One commenter demanded the doctor's license be revoked and the hospital's name be disclosed, questioning the doctor's qualifications and judgment in printing AI-generated content without review. Another user, claiming to be a doctor, advised lodging a formal complaint with the hospital and leaving a factual review, emphasizing that a simple request for an easy-to-understand explanation would have sufficed without resorting to demeaning language.

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There is no reason to include dehumanizing and demeaning remarks when asking for an explanation in an easy-to-understand way.