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I wonder would it be better off using sources like the Cochrane library? Smaller data set, meta-analysis. While doctors face google, patients face poor doctors
by raffraffraff 3y ago
I wonder would it be better off using sources like the Cochrane library? Smaller data set, meta-analysis.
While doctors face google, patients face poor doctors. My father is 96, so lots of things have inevitably started to go wrong. Knees, heart, bladder, prostate, blood pressure. His doctor is absolutely shit. He started feeling light-headed a few months back and the doctor confidently pronounced that he's just old. My mother intervened. Turns out the handfuls of pills he's been prescribing my father included blood pressure pills, and if he ha bothered taking routine blood pressure readings the doctor would have realized that my father's blood pressure was dangerously low. He quit those pills and bounced back. His doctor has been useless, lazy and shamelessly apathetic for 10 years. Terrible doctors are everywhere. My wife's doctor told her that her extremely heavy periods just happen to some women. Oh, and that her chronic anemia and B12 deficiency were normal in some women, so he'd just keep giving her those shots. She demanded a scan, which revealed a fibroid but the doctor told her: "oh, you can just go on the pill!" It took another doctor to schedule a procedure to remove the fibroid. She's been fine for a decade since. But has met many women online who went through hell with untreated fibroids. One woman said that it ruined her life because her anemia was disabling, her heavy periods left her housebound, and when the fibroid finally reached the size of a grapefruit she had to have a hysterectomy. Up to that point her doctor called her a hypochondriac.
Oh, and when my sister told her doctor that she had "new" pains 2 months after giving birth, he told her it was normal, take pain killers and go home. It took several attempts before she convinced him to schedule a scan. Turns out it was terminal cancer! I don't even know that catching it a few weeks earlier would have changed anything, but still. Err on the side of caution.
The thing about a decent LLM doctor, if one were to exist, is that it won't get bored, apathetic, depressed, tired, hateful etc.
- cwillu 3y ago> The thing about a decent LLM doctor, if one were to exist, is that it won't get bored, apathetic, depressed, tired, hateful etc. It will, however, have had the standard biases RLHF'd into it.