Someone else in the comments made a good point about capturing the common words patients tell providers and being able to parse that. If you could transform wha

Someone else in the comments made a good point about capturing the common words patients tell providers and being able to parse that. If you could transform what a patient is telling you from their words into a concise set of standardized symptoms, then you have essentially done what any other provider does when they obtain a focused history. That could allow a model to prompt the specific questions needed, or request the provider to look for pertinent physical exam findings. On the other hand (maybe easier?), I think we could also improve the use of some of our less costly and non-harmful techniques, such as ultrasound, to improve our screening.