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It'll be interesting to see how long the medical industry will manage to FUD people into being scared of taking their symptoms to an AI, considering that they h
by p-e-w 4y ago
It'll be interesting to see how long the medical industry will manage to FUD people into being scared of taking their symptoms to an AI, considering that they have been treating patients like cattle to be stamped off essentially since forever.
The bar of competence set by most doctors is so hilariously low that any smart person with a search engine has been able to outdo the typical GP for a while now. All the accumulated knowledge these professionals have is worthless if they don't take more than 3 minutes to look at the patient.
Imagine if, as an engineering consultant, you took just 3 minutes in total for your customer, including the customer describing their problem. They would literally be better off just googling it instead. There's no reason to expect this to be different for doctors, and indeed it isn't.
- numpad0 4y ago> Imagine if, as an engineering consultant, you took just 3 minutes in total for your customer, including the customer describing their problem. So, as a HN user, how many times did that not happen to you?
- p-e-w 4y agoIt never happened. If I, or any other engineer, tried to treat customers like that we'd get laughed out of the "consultation". That people (are forced to) accept this kind of behavior from medical professionals is nothing short of insane.
- numpad0 4y agoIs it your point that it's insane to expect customer to appreciate your intervention in that attitude, or that it's insane to believe that you can identify a problem that way? Aren't you conflating value/social engineering with technical problem solving? I mean, have you seriously never had a "knowing where to put the chalk mark" moment, neither in the medical nor in the engineering fields, neither as a customer nor as the professional, aside that it is not a great presentation to precede a fat invoice?