When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You

10 min read 15 Jun 2023, 04:23 PM IST The Wall Street Journal

Artificial intelligence raises difficult questions about who makes the call in a health crisis: the human or the machine?

Melissa Beebe has been an oncology nurse for 15 years at UC Davis Medical Center. “I feel moral distress when I know the right thing to do and I can’t do it,“ she said.

Melissa Beebe, an oncology nurse, relies on her observation skills to make life-or-death decisions. A sleepy patient with dilated pupils could have had a hemorrhagic stroke. An elderly patient with foul-smelling breath could have an abdominal obstruction.