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Tweet author here. First vet was incompetent. Second vet was highly skilled and very professional, I am 100% confident they would have been able to place the co

Tweet author here. First vet was incompetent. Second vet was highly skilled and very professional, I am 100% confident they would have been able to place the correct diagnosis regardless. If we continued staying with the first vet without getting a second opinion, she definitely would have died. On the other hand, if the first vet had access to specialized AI medical diagnostics tools, she wouldn't have died. I think that's the key takeway here. I think it's also worth pointing out this was less about GPT placing a certain diagnosis, and more about it swaying me in the right direction (i.e. away from listening to bad doctor's advice, and towards looking for a second/opinion trying something else). When the first vet said "welp, don't know what else to do, we gave her the treatment and there's nothing else it can possibly be, so we're just going to monitor her and see how things go", I stayed up all night asking GP4 various things, and no matter which way I sliced it, it was obvious something didn't add up

2muchcoffeeman 4y ago
People should be getting a 2nd opinion regardless. Too many people don’t shop around with their health care providers enough and the say things like “GPs are useless”, “physiotherapists are useless”. Some are bad, some burn out, some are over worked, just like all professions.
leobg 4y ago
Question is, would an incompetent, overworked person take the time and humility to actually ask the AI? You did, because you cared. With incompetent or overworked people, the problem is often that they just don’t care, or have no capacity to care. Being able to ask the proper question is almost always 80% of the solution. In your case, the first vet, it seems to me, wasn’t even asking the question.
- toomuchtodo 4y ago
  Indeed, this is a call to fix the process by requiring or strongly encouraging consulting the big electronic brain. Historically (1800s), doctors did not feel the need to wash their hands between patients, leading to poor outcomes and death. It had to be mandated, leading to improved outcomes. Same thing. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashing-once-controversial-medical-advice https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashi...

2muchcoffeeman 4y ago

People should be getting a 2nd opinion regardless. Too many people don’t shop around with their health care providers enough and the say things like “GPs are useless”, “physiotherapists are useless”. Some are bad, some burn out, some are over worked, just like all professions.

leobg 4y ago

Question is, would an incompetent, overworked person take the time and humility to actually ask the AI? You did, because you cared. With incompetent or overworked people, the problem is often that they just don’t care, or have no capacity to care. Being able to ask the proper question is almost always 80% of the solution. In your case, the first vet, it seems to me, wasn’t even asking the question.

toomuchtodo 4y ago
Indeed, this is a call to fix the process by requiring or strongly encouraging consulting the big electronic brain. Historically (1800s), doctors did not feel the need to wash their hands between patients, leading to poor outcomes and death. It had to be mandated, leading to improved outcomes. Same thing. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashing-once-controversial-medical-advice https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashi...