Appendix Lets Patients Get Prescriptions from Claude Without Ever Speaking to a Doctor

Emergency room physician Benjamin Jack, MD, has developed Appendix, a service that uses AI agents like Claude Code to handle patient intake and generate medical encounter notes, which are then submitted through an API for a board-certified physician to review and issue prescriptions. The system, announced on X, is designed as an intake workflow rather than an autonomous prescribing bot, allowing patients to describe their symptoms to an AI without ever speaking directly to a doctor. Jack's creation raises questions about the role of AI in clinical decision-making and the future of direct-to-consumer prescription services.

Benjamin Jack, MD @bjackmd , an emergency room physician, said in a three post thread on X that he has built Appendix, a service meant to turn Claude Code or another AI agent into the front end for a prescription visit. https://x.com/bjackmd/status/2062200039775023489 Jack described the workflow as an intake system, not an autonomous prescribing bot: a patient tells an AI agent what is going on, the agent writes up the encounter and submits it through Appendix's API, and a board certified ph...