Note: This episode was recorded on July 28, 2026 and discusses ongoing litigation which may have changed by release. On July 22, 2026, a Florida pastor filed suit against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT talked him out of seeking care for what turned out to be a pulmonary embolism. On July 23, OpenAI made its health product generally available to every adult in the United States. Those two dates are a fair picture of where we are.46% of Canadian adults have asked an AI chatbot for medical advice in the past year. 42% of the people who used one for a physical health question never went on to speak to a clinician at all. And nearly half of patients say they have hidden that use from their doctor, or would.This episode looks at what the evidence actually shows about the public using generative AI for health information: where these tools are right, where they fail, why the failures are hard for patients to see, and what none of our professional bodies have told us yet.Links related to this episode

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