{"id":23135,"date":"2026-05-18T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/melbourne-psychiatrist-refuses-new-patients-who-dont-consent-to-ai-note-taking\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:37:14","slug":"melbourne-psychiatrist-refuses-new-patients-who-dont-consent-to-ai-note-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/melbourne-psychiatrist-refuses-new-patients-who-dont-consent-to-ai-note-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don\u2019t consent to AI note-taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Melbourne psychiatrist has refused new patients unless they agree to allow her to use an AI scribe to transcribe the conversations in their sessions.<\/p>\n<p>AI-driven note taking tools are becoming popular within the medical industry \u2013 with two in five general practitioners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/mar\/29\/doctors-using-ai-for-notes-australia\">now using such scribes<\/a>, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/may\/19\/melbourne-psychiatrist-ai-note-taking-new-patients\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca73e663d3dd9eae22b9859e6146d813b56b6ba3\/932_0_5600_4480\/master\/5600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3c0ab619335d24cb8d76f0890c2789e5\" title=\"Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don\u2019t consent to AI note-taking\" \/>Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nA Melbourne psychiatrist has refused new patients unless they agree to allow her to use an AI scribe to transcribe the conversations in their sessions.<br \/>\nAI-driven note taking tools are becoming popular within the medical industry \u2013 with two in five general practitioners now using such scribes, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A Melbourne psychiatrist has refused new patients unless they agree to allow her to use an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/melbourne-psychiatrist-refuses-new-patients-who-dont-consent-to-ai-note-taking\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don\u2019t consent to AI note-taking<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}