# ChatGPT told user to ignore lethal condition, but people keep treating it as a doctor > Source: > Published: 2026-07-23 12:38:25+00:00 You’d think that it would be obvious that it’s a terrible idea to ask an [AI chatbot](https://9to5mac.com/guides/ai/) for a medical consultation, but hundreds of millions of people do it every week. In one near-death example now the subject of a lawsuit, [ChatGPT](https://9to5mac.com/guides/chatgpt/) advised a pastor to ignore symptoms of a pulmonary embolism – a condition with a mortality rate of 30%. In fact, the advice it offered very likely made things worse …