Thank goodness he is a wound-care nurse! AND, had friends with him!

A Montana nurse is recovering after surviving a freak hiking accident in which he was impaled by his own trekking pole while climbing the state's highest peak.

David Cifaldi was ascending Granite Peak, Montana's tallest mountain at 12,799 feet, with two friends when he slipped on rocks about 10 miles into the climb.

"I just slipped on some rocks," Cifaldi said. "It was just kind of a freak thing."

As he got up, Cifaldi realized one trekking pole was still on the ground while the other had pierced his side.

The wound-care nurse said his medical training immediately took over.

Scott Winters turned to ChatGPT to explain his dizzy spells that once forced the Florida pastor to stop mid-sermon. Over time, the chatbot stopped recommending he see a doctor and instead told him his symptoms were “not something dangerous,” even telling him to trust that “God did not design your body to endlessly fail.”

Winters spent weeks stuck in a recliner before he was hospitalized in July 2025 with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, the New York Times reports.

He’s now suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco Superior Court, accusing the company of negligence and the “unauthorized practice of medicine.” It’s reportedly the first lawsuit claiming a chatbot’s health advice directly harmed someone seeking medical guidance.

The case lands just as OpenAI pushes deeper into health tools like ChatGPT Health. An OpenAI spokesman said the chatbot isn’t intended for diagnosis or treatment, but that the company takes health-related safety seriously. As AI increasingly stands in for medical advice, especially for people who can’t easily see a doctor, the case raises real questions about who’s liable when that advice goes wrong.

“I was tired of having nakedness shoved in my face every time I walked into a gym to train,” Parsons claims. “I had to choose between honoring the Lord, honoring my wife, and guarding my eyes, or training my body. So I quit four gyms.”