Expertise · Agentic AI in Medicine

AI Medical Expert Witness: Agentic Clinical Decision Support & Autonomous Prescribing

This practice covers agentic clinical decision support, autonomous prescribing workflows, AI-drafted records and direct-to-consumer health agents. These systems create a novel liability area. There is no established niche expert yet. Dr. Hannah-Shmouni builds these systems and practises alongside them as a physician.

An AI medical expert witness evaluates what happened when an algorithm sat between the clinician and the patient. Someone still had to decide whether the tool was appropriate. Someone had to decide whether its output was plausible. A human had to review it before it reached the chart or the prescription. An expert must understand both the medicine and the system that produced the recommendation.

Dr. Hannah-Shmouni is a board-certified endocrinologist in active practice. He is the founder of an AI health company. He is also Director of the AI Academy at the Geneva College of Longevity Science. He can explain to a court how these systems are built, validated and deployed. He can also explain what they do not know. He does so without overstating their capability or dismissing them as a black box.

Case Patterns

Where AI matters arise

01

Autonomous prescribing & telehealth agents

Intake bots and agentic workflows that gather a history, order a panel and route a prescription with a physician signature applied at the end. The question a court needs answered is where independent medical judgment actually entered the encounter — and whether the clinician who signed ever saw what the agent decided.

02

Clinical decision support — reliance and override

A clinician who follows an AI recommendation into harm, or overrides a correct one, is still measured against the standard of care. I address what a reasonable endocrinologist should have done with that output: the validation the tool did or did not have, the population it was trained on, and whether the recommendation was plausible on the record in front of them.

03

AI-generated documentation

Ambient scribes and LLM-drafted notes that record examinations never performed, carry forward resolved diagnoses, or hallucinate results outright. When the chart itself is partly machine-written, establishing what actually happened at the visit becomes an evidentiary problem before it becomes a clinical one.

04

Direct-to-consumer health AI

Chatbots and longevity apps advising on peptides, testosterone, supplements and dosing without a clinician in the loop — and the gap between the marketing claim, the disclaimer in the terms of service, and what a reasonable user understood they were being told.

05

Validation, bias & regulatory status

Whether a tool was clinically validated, in whom, and against what endpoint; whether it was deployed as regulated software or launched as a "wellness" product to avoid that path; and whether performance degraded in the population it was actually used on.

06

Endocrine and metabolic AI specifically

Algorithmic titration of insulin, GLP-1 agonists and hormone therapy, and risk scores applied to metabolic disease. These are the systems I both practise in and build with — I can speak to the model behaviour and to the endocrinology it is acting on, rather than one at the expense of the other.

What the Record Shows

The questions I answer

  • ✦ At what point in the encounter did a licensed clinician exercise independent judgment — and does the record prove it?
  • ✦ Was the tool validated for this indication and this population, or extended beyond what its evidence supports?
  • ✦ Was the patient told an algorithm was involved, and was that disclosure meaningful?
  • ✦ Should the output have been recognized as wrong by a reasonable clinician reading the chart at the time?
  • ✦ Which parts of the record were machine-generated, and can the underlying clinical encounter still be reconstructed from them?

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