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What Happens When Medical AI Sees South Asian Patients?

We ran an early benchmark. The results were exactly as worrying as they were useful.

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Omar Saleem, MD
May 12, 2026
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Medicine has maps. Some are useful. Some are copied for too long.

There is a sentence I have heard too many times in medicine:

“The numbers look fine.”

It is usually said with kindness. A clinician looks at the chart, sees a BMI in the low 20s, a fasting glucose that is only slightly high, an LDL that is not dramatic, a ten-year risk score that prints out …

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