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Your doctor's brain is not the world's best device for information retrieval. As a former doctor, agree 100%. Still the medical profession seems to look down u
by shiven 10y ago
Your doctor's brain is not the world's best device for information retrieval.
As a former doctor, agree 100%. Still the medical profession seems to look down upon "information aid"-like technology. Beyond accurate physical examination and correctly entering the patient's history into a well-trained pattern-matching AI engine, doctors really don't need to be doing much in a first-world country. They need to be re-inserted into the workflow only if the treatment recommended by the automated/AI approach does not help.
The brutal truth is that the vast majority of doctors, even specialists, will be incapable of correctly diagnosing and treating the very uncommon, rare and extremely rare medical conditions.
"The eyes see what the mind thinks" - is absolutely applicable to 99% of doctors, who, for various reasons, would be more concerned with helping the 95% of their patients with obvious/common/easily-identifiable conditions that respond to their first or at most second line of treatment, than bother spending an inordinate amount of time, effort and energy on the remaining 5% who's death/suffering may well be considered the "cost of doing business". Bitter truth, from experience.
- ladytron 10y agoYes, I believe this is what happened to my friend with the rare disease of late pregnancy. Even though she had a diagnosis, she was on a regular maternity ward. None of the nurses / Drs. Seemed to really want to learn about her condition or make sure she was being treated correctly for her disease. She "didn't fit". Her death or the baby's death would have been "the cost of doing business". Her doctor said 2 or 3 babies died of Choleostasis every YEAR, yet the nurses and doctors on the maternity ward were quite clueless.