--- title: Medical AI replaced nurses and dodged its own checks description: Two US cases expose the darker side of medical AI adoption. At Montefiore hospital in New York, a dozen nurses were laid off and replaced by AI software... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/medical-ai-replaced-nurses-and-dodged-its-own-checks-kqyprhipy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Medical AI replaced nurses and dodged its own checks | daily.dev og:description: Two US cases expose the darker side of medical AI adoption. At Montefiore hospital in New York, a dozen nurses were laid off and replaced by AI software... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/medical-ai-replaced-nurses-and-dodged-its-own-checks-kqyprhipy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kqypRhipY.png og:image:alt: Medical AI replaced nurses and dodged its own checks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Medical AI replaced nurses and dodged its own checks **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Two US cases expose the darker side of medical AI adoption. At Montefiore hospital in New York, a dozen nurses were laid off and replaced by AI software handling utilization review, which their union says violates a recently negotiated contract. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic AI safety leader filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising concerns about an AI assistant called MAYA that allegedly had a 67% error rate, with the team deleting unflattering test results and bypassing proper oversight. Together, the cases highlight a pattern where hospitals capture efficiency gains while patients and whistleblowers bear the risks of inadequate AI safeguards. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.](https://daily.dev/posts/health-care-ai-is-here-we-don-t-know-if-it-actually-helps-patients--3lz9zsugd) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Is AI ruining our skills? 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