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Pastor Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT Advice; Apple Health Feature Debuts

7/25/2026

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Pastor Winters Sues

Pastor Scott Winters sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco Superior Court July 21, 2026, alleging ChatGPT nearly killed him.
Winters says the bot dismissed his dizzy spells and pain as harmless and urged him to stay seated.
He was hospitalized July 13, 2025 with a pulmonary embolism doctors linked to immobility.
OpenAI’s Drew Pusateri said ChatGPT is not a doctor and should never replace medical care.

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OpenAI Launches Health

OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT on July 24, 2026, letting U.S. users link Apple Health data.
With permission, the bot can reference medications, sleep and activity, data that OpenAI says will not train its models or be used for ads.
OpenAI tested the feature with hundreds of physicians, who say it now better detects urgent-care cues, and excluded it at launch from European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Historical Context

In April 2016 DeepMind signed a data-sharing agreement with the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, giving it access to records of 1.6 million patients. The ICO ruled in July 2017 the trust breached the Data Protection Act, prompting stricter health-data governance. That precedent now frames regulators’ scrutiny of OpenAI’s 2026 ChatGPT Health feature, which links Apple Health metrics and faces lawsuits.

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Pastor Winters Sues

Pastor Scott Winters sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco Superior Court July 21, 2026, alleging ChatGPT nearly killed him.
Winters says the bot dismissed his dizzy spells and pain as harmless and urged him to stay seated.
He was hospitalized July 13, 2025 with a pulmonary embolism doctors linked to immobility.
OpenAI’s Drew Pusateri said ChatGPT is not a doctor and should never replace medical care.

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