Dr. Oz: "Whether you want it or not" the best way to help rural communities with health care will be "AI-based avatars"
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-02T19:06:19.344Z
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And no, we don't want AI based health care. Get out of here with that shit. 
Driving the news: Oz said AI and robotics can be part of the solution for parts of America that don't have access to critical medical care, like obstetricians and mental health services.
"Within the next three years, before our administration is done, we will be using agentic AI to accelerate our ability to take care of people, especially when they're in places where we don't have access to care," Oz said at the Axios House event.
More than one-third of U.S. counties don't have any obstetricians, midwives or birthing centers. More than 500 hospitals have closed OB units since 2010.
How it works: One idea that has been proposed is to "use robots to do ultrasounds on pregnant women," Oz said. "Robots can do it. We already have simple systems that are effective."
There are also technologies under development "where you can take a wand, you don't even see the image, you get digitized insights back that tell you whether the child's OK or not."
"And frankly, I don't have to see the image. I just have to know if the image is good enough to tell me the child doesn't have a problem," Oz said.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/22/dr-oz-davos-ai-medical-health
***** Robots doing an ultrasound on a pregnant woman and Oz says the doctor doesn’t even need to see the results?!?! I suppose they will create a robot to deliver the baby, too?!?! And they wonder why women are saying NO to birthing babies in this country?!?!
