{"id":754569,"date":"2026-06-22T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:04:09","slug":"1-in-3-americans-use-chatbots-for-health-advice-these-6-patients-explain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754569\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 3 Americans use chatbots for health advice. These 6 patients explain why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VQEZKY4JEZDMRCPHVGFASIHX5Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Chatbots fueled by artificial intelligence bear disclaimers saying they cannot dispense medical advice or diagnose conditions, but they still field millions of queries from users who are sick, trying to decipher medical records or understand their treatment options.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2P2VBCNXRJH33GDO7WEHQPH7CQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Nearly 1 in 3 Americans have turned to the bots for health information, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice\/?utm_campaign=KFF-Polling-Surveys&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--R0tHjkHfVL7DRkN647UGhNRQTDZahz8bE4g1i5AW2xjv-ziFKiLMUBll6qwGznBuQqCTxTpCbAcwCnj0Pbh7ID2epMA&amp;_hsmi=410426269&amp;utm_content=410426269&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent survey<\/a> by KFF, a nonpartisan health policy and education organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chatbots fueled by artificial intelligence bear disclaimers saying they cannot dispense medical advice or diagnose conditions, but they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-754569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}