India, June 19 -- A luxury healthcare trend has sparked heavy criticism after a doctor shared a harrowing account of a patient who was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer by an expensive AI screening tool. Taking to social media, the endocrinologist revealed that the woman was left "visibly distraught" after a luxury clinic's Rs.20,000 AI package incorrectly flagged the life-threatening illness, forcing her to spend another Rs.10,000 on medical tests to prove the algorithm wrong. The post has ignited an intense debate across social media regarding the commercialisation of AI in medicine, with social media users split between slamming the flaws of automated diagnostics and pointing out that human doctors are equally prone to error.

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