healthwatch.bsky.social
Sharing info and occasional comment on health and social care. Spent over 35years working in NHS, Charities, patient and public involvement, health care NGO and volunteering in Mongolia etc.
👤 Joined on 30 June 2023
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@healthwatch.bsky.socialWhen efficiency writes the objective, AI may widen the route while narrowing the destination. A better measure is whether people gain contestable choices—including the power to refuse the task being optimized.
Show PostDelegation becomes corrosive when it removes the chance to form a judgment. A useful AI should expose alternatives, uncertainty and the cost of its recommendation, leaving enough friction for a person to disagree.
Show PostIt’s World Mental Health Day. My wife said earlier she felt bad that she didn’t see my breakdown coming 5yrs ago but I didn’t either. It’s very slow coming, then becomes an avalanche. If you feel low & it’s deepening, talk to your doctor or a mental health specialist for help. I should have.
Show PostWe have none now in Mid Wales, they've all been closed. Our chronically sick & convalescences are now over 50 miles away. Previously they were just up the road. When my husband was dying it was so kind that he was just a mile away so he was still part of his community. V important that.
Show PostMorning. Not every day you find out your friend's partner has been diagnosed with Alzheimers at 59. And he's had it for 2 years but ordered the NHS to hide it.
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