yeah, as it stands in this current healthcare paradigm, 90% of doctors are practically useless beyond the most obvious diagnosis. I’d rather not have to wait until that paradigm changes 100 years from now…
doctors be like (examples I’ve actually seen with friends and family):
“take this Accutane that will fuck up your life forever for something that can be fixed with diet changes”
“It’s just stress, take it easy” turns out to be cancer
I can see the case for banning AI in almost every sector, but for medicine the upside is just too great to pass up. And even if it’s only used for anamnesis to point you and your healthcare providers in the right direction.
My favorite was a doctor who told two separate people in my wife’s family to apply tiger balm to the affected area until the pain goes away. After a second diagnosis, the first issue turned out to be an issue with the growth plate in their wrist, and the second issue was a broken leg. Both required surgery.
Doing just about anything that isn’t going to the first doctor would have been a more productive use of time. At least a crappy chatbot could tell them to use tiger balm right away without leaving the house.
Yup. My wife has a family history of lupus, has kidney issues, had a serious b12 deficiency, and pretty much every other symptom of lupus, but a negative ANA panel, so it can’t be lupus (a negative ANA doesn’t rule it out completely).
When she went in because she was having neuropathic pain, which is very common in lupus and b12 deficiencies, she was told it was probably from her covid vaccine.
What sucks the most is I, a 6’3 male, actually gets taken seriously by the same doctors. It’s bad enough that I have to go with her to appointments so there’s a chance of her being taken seriously.
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Or a doctor that dismisses all of your symptoms because they can’t be fucked to put effort into a diagnosis.
yeah, as it stands in this current healthcare paradigm, 90% of doctors are practically useless beyond the most obvious diagnosis. I’d rather not have to wait until that paradigm changes 100 years from now…
doctors be like (examples I’ve actually seen with friends and family):
“take this Accutane that will fuck up your life forever for something that can be fixed with diet changes”
“It’s just stress, take it easy” turns out to be cancer
I can see the case for banning AI in almost every sector, but for medicine the upside is just too great to pass up. And even if it’s only used for anamnesis to point you and your healthcare providers in the right direction.
My favorite was a doctor who told two separate people in my wife’s family to apply tiger balm to the affected area until the pain goes away. After a second diagnosis, the first issue turned out to be an issue with the growth plate in their wrist, and the second issue was a broken leg. Both required surgery.
Doing just about anything that isn’t going to the first doctor would have been a more productive use of time. At least a crappy chatbot could tell them to use tiger balm right away without leaving the house.
Yup. My wife has a family history of lupus, has kidney issues, had a serious b12 deficiency, and pretty much every other symptom of lupus, but a negative ANA panel, so it can’t be lupus (a negative ANA doesn’t rule it out completely).
When she went in because she was having neuropathic pain, which is very common in lupus and b12 deficiencies, she was told it was probably from her covid vaccine.
What sucks the most is I, a 6’3 male, actually gets taken seriously by the same doctors. It’s bad enough that I have to go with her to appointments so there’s a chance of her being taken seriously.