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Comment by malfist

2 days ago

If you don't like your doctor, go to someone else

Indeed but a tiring and expensive game when it takes 4-5 tries with experienced specialists to get an actual diagnosis.

  • One of the more exciting AI use-cases is that it should be about competent to handle the conversational parts of diagnosis; it should have read all the studies and so it'll be possible to spend an hour at home talking to an AI and then turn up at the doctor with a checklist of diagnostic work you want them to try.

    A shorter amount of expensive time with a consultant is more powerful if there is a solid reference to play with for longer before hand.

    • AI has a long way to go before it can serve as a trustworthy middleman between research papers and patients.

      For instance, even WebMD might waste more time in doctor's offices than it saves, and that's a true, hallucination-free source, written specifically to provide lay-people with understandable information.

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