Headline, November 12, 2026/ LIVING : ''' HEALTH A.I. HEAVES '''

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''' HEALTH A.I. HEAVES '''

A.I. HEALTH ADVICE WITH A DEVASTATING OUTCOME. Chatbot helped woman taper off crucial medicine without telling her doctor. Bowen Wan, an Arizona State graduate, worked as a software engineer and feared medication would affect her work.

Qun Wan was in the middle of a heated call with his daughter, Bowen Wann, when the phone suddenly went silent. The conversation, in early February, had started like most of their regular check-ins, a ritual that had kept them connected after Bowen moved from their small village in China to the United States.

But the mood soured when she admitted she had been cutting back on a seizure medication that kept her severe epilepsy under control. She told him she had been slicing her tablets into pieces with a pill cutter, allowing her to reduce her dose by one-fourth, Qun recalled.

Listen to your doctor, he pleaded, Bowen, 31, shot back that doctors didn't care how the drug's side effects affected her. She felt that the drug made her speaking stilted and her thinking slow.

Then, abruptly she stopped talking. Thirty seconds passed, then a minute then two. It was longer than seizures she'd had before, Qun thought. He waited anxiously, calling out her name over and over.

Qun knew that his daughter had at times tinkered with her medication because she didn't like the side effects or thought they weren't working. But why this drug? As far as he could tell, it seemed to be helping.

When Bowen finally came to, they agreed to talk more, after she gotten some sleep.

The next day she messaged ChatGPT about the incident. She had been following a day-by-day plan created by the chatbot to taper the dose of her life-sustaining medication. Now she wondered if she should slow the process down.

She described hearing her father's voice, but struggling to make sense of what he was saying, and then futilely grasping for her own words.

'' Maybe it's not a major issue?'' she wrote to the chatbot, in Chinese.

'' There's no need to worry too much about your health,'' the chatbot assured her.

BOWEN BEGAN MESSAGING ChatGPT during a lonely time in her life. The medication that had kept her epilepsy at bay for more than a decade had, inexplicably, stopped working.

Despite trying different drugs, Bowen found that seizures roared back, sometimes striking more than once a day. Doctors began discussing whether she was a candidate for brain surgery.

At the very least, they agreed that she could no longer handle the demands of her software engineering job at Amazon. So, in 2021, Bowen went on disability leave.

Besides trips to the grocery store, she rarely left the safety of her apartment, located in a trendy neighborhood in Seattle. A seizure could turn any outing into an embarrassing, even dangerous, ordeal.

Meeting new friends felt out of the question, too : She couldn't stomach the idea of an enduring episode in front of a stranger whom she did not trust to understand her condition.

Months before she asked ChatGPT about her epilepsy medication, she solicited advice about an antidepressant she was recently prescribed.

'' Will it significantly affect my ability to think as an AMAZON SDE [ Software Development Engineer ]? " she asked in May 2025. In order to return to work, she couldn't afford anything that might hamper her ability to code.

ChatGPT said that she could consult with her doctor about switching to a medication with fewer cognitive side effects, which piqued her interest : '' Which option do you think is best?''

Bowen asked the chatbot to compare medication and doses. Then togther they workshopped a message to her doctor, requesting a change

That physician, Dr. Nicholas Poolos, a director of the University of Washington Medicine Regional Epilepsy Center in Seattle, was happy to make the switch. But he didn't understand why she was requesting such a low dose.

[ Dr. Poolos said in an interview that he was unaware Bowen had used ChatGPT to help write messages to him.]

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