Diana Ferro works at a major pediatric hospital in Italy, working on AI infrastructure, rare diseases, and — importantly — the International Alliance of Pediatric Centers on AI. Unlike the patient voices earlier in the Agentic Patient series, she sits on the other side of the consulting-room door. Her concerns are sharper, more specific, and more uncomfortable. She is not against patient AI use. She is watching what happens when desperate parents, teenagers in crisis, and sycophantic chatbots meet in a pediatric setting and she is trying to build the guardrails in real time.

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