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Patient cannot, from the couch, recall how to spell 'necessary,' convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or remember what time the kids need to be picked up. Asks Alexa instead. Alexa answers. Patient does not retain the answer. Has asked the same spelling question 14 times this month. The knowledge is, apparently, no longer in patient; it is in the kitchen.
Chronic. Memory has, apparently, been outsourced.
None. Unplugging Alexa triggers a domestic crisis.
Patients with Pathological Alexa Over-Reliance typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Alexa Over-Reliance belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Dependentia alexa domestica, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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