AI & Health: Who Controls The Cure?—PART 5
January 16, 2026
2:45 am
Resistance, Reckoning, and the Future of Human-Centered Medicine
How Patients, Clinicians, and Institutions Are Pushing Back Against Algorithmic Control.
When Progress Meets Consequence
Technological waves don’t stop at the shoreline; they slam into it. Healthcare’s embrace of artificial intelligence—first hailed as efficiency at scale—has now hit that surf. The celebratory phase is over. In its place: questions from the very people most affected by machine-mediated decisions. Patients discovering their care pathways were quietly shaped by an algorithm. Clinicians realizing their judgement has been nudged, then subordinated. Institutions finding themselves liable for tools they cannot interrogate.
This …
