AI generated admission requests
Are you guys seeing more of this? I received a lengthy admission request text page tonight that was obviously written using AI. It was painful and long to read.
Instead of “cellulitis, failed outpatient antibiotics” or “please call me to discuss requested admission for cellulitis” we get things like “The continued clinical progression represents failure of outpatient management and requires escalation to parenteral antibiotics with close monitoring for response and further extension of infection despite completion of sequential antibiotic therapy” and “Although they are currently afebrile, hemodynamically stable, and without sepsis or crepitus, these reassuring findings do not mitigate the documented progression despite oral therapy.”
Even worse, when I called the ED doc, he couldn’t even tell me the correct antibiotics he had been on, and after consulting on the guy and doing a thorough history, he did not in fact meet admission criteria and I discharged him home. Sigh.