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Based on my experience with several doctors and other medical professionals here in the US, it appears as if they always diagnose problems with a simplified tes
by gpsx 10y ago
Based on my experience with several doctors and other medical professionals here in the US, it appears as if they always diagnose problems with a simplified test or some kind of decision tree like the standard test they did here (the "established algorithm"). Doctors I have seen only seem to get the diagnosis right if it is a problem most people have.
The most blatent example, though not the only one, is when I spent months and thousands of dollars (with the help of my insurance company) chasing a problem in my SI joint. Four different physical therapists kept telling me I had referred pain from my spine. This is based on the fact that I felt the pain if I raised my leg when I was lying down. That seems like a pretty poor test. Any other doctor or physical therapist that actually looked at my SI joint said I had an inflammed SI joint problem. The problem turned out to be my hip muscles would get tight when I slept on my side.
I would guess the main problem is not the doctors themselves but the administration that doesn't trust the doctors to use their brains. If that is true, it is not silly that the AI result beat the simple test. Hopefully either they will start using better tests of trust doctors a little more to think on their own.