🩺The Future of Healthcare: Smart… or Just Stupid?🤔

An AI doctor recommended beta blockers—when the real issue was simply a twisted rib from golfing.

Dec 13, 2025

Sometimes I like to poke a little fun at the absurdity of the world we’re living in, and today’s video was one of those moments. I hopped onto this new AI “doctor” website—Doctronic—and ran a totally simple scenario: a 55-year-old golfer starts experiencing heart palpitations. Nothing dramatic, nothing chronic… just a guy practicing his golf swing and, like so many people I’ve worked with, accidentally throwing his chest out of alignment. That alone can put pressure on the heart. Yet within minutes, the AI doctor is recommending EKGs, Holter monitors, blood panels, thyroid tests, stress tests, and of course… pharmaceuticals. All because the poor imaginary golfer’s heart “skipped a beat.”

But here’s the funny part: in real life, we see this all the time. Someone tweaks their stance, over-rotates, puts strain on the sternum or ribs, and suddenly they’re terrified they’re having a cardiac episode. In reality, it can be as simple as throwing your chest out while working on your golf swing. That’s it. The body shifts, the heart gets a little pressure, and boom—palpitations. Instead of Holter monitors and beta blockers, all this hypothetical golfer really needed was to visit a good osteopath, get the structure realigned, and—like we’ve seen countless times—the palpitations simply go away. That’s the part nobody talks about, and the part algorithms will never ask about: structure.

What amazed me was watching the AI run through its protocol step-by-step, as if the only possible explanation must be electrical disturbances, dangerous arrhythmias, or biochemical abnormalities. The longer the conversation went, the deeper into the medical machine it pulled me—numbers, tests, risk profiles, drugs. And yet not once did it ask the most obvious terrain-informed question: “Did you just twist wrong? Did you throw your chest out? Could this be structural?” For us, this type of detective work is second nature: scars, adhesions, posture changes, strain patterns. Online medicine doesn’t even consider that the entire problem may be mechanical, not pathological.

To me, this whole experience highlighted where the future of healthcare is trying to go: automated, algorithmic, impersonal, and increasingly separated from the physical reality of the body. Meanwhile, the actual solution is often simple, non-invasive, inexpensive, and based on understanding how the body really works. A smart toilet might one day tell you your minerals are “too low for a cookie,” but it will never tell you your left rib is rotated and pressing on your heart. That takes human hands, human intuition, and actual connection. The terrain of the body is alive, dynamic, and responsive—not something that fits neatly into a drop-down menu.

So if you ever find yourself chasing symptoms down Google rabbit holes or being diagnosed by an AI avatar, just remember: sometimes your heart palpitations aren’t a “condition.” Sometimes you just swung a golf club with your chest puffed out. Go see a skilled osteopath, get realigned, and watch how fast your fear evaporates. The future of medicine may be “intelligent or stupid,” but the body itself? The body is brilliant. And usually, it’s just asking for something simple.

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