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Was helping my sibling out yesterday with some health insurance stuff, their treatment had been stalled so needed to see their primary care provider but the mf was in a different system all together. Navigating the insurance site to change it was a nightmare so I was coaching them what to say on the phone and I think we got a doctor that exists. Beforehand I was just calling up clinics to confirm if these doctors even were real and it was a pain… pretty sure the insurance site was just using ai to scrape local doctors around here not really checking to see if they were real and that rightly pisses me off. At least the lady on the phone was way more helpful
Health bureaucracy is so fucked up. I don’t even know how they get so fucked up or get the idea to use AI for a database like that.
It’s just my guess because holy shit some of the doctors made up names were like
Sleve Mcdichael and Todd Bonzalez?
I talked to a tamil person in the healthcare industry once who told me she shortens her name for white people because they can’t pronounce her actual name, and once she had to get a nametag and it just arbitrarily cut off half her name. Like her name on the tag just ended in the middle of the name.
Shit was like Dr Mating, Narwhals I think that for real was take