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I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients
- smt88 3y agotl;dr: > But not for diagnosis. As I recently wrote about and discussed on a recent podcast, ChatGPT works fairly well as a diagnostic assistant—but only if you feed it perfect information, and the actual patient has a classic presentation, which is rarely the case. (And you don’t mind a 50% success rate that often misses life-threatening conditions.) ... > I’ve taken to using ChatGPT to help empathically explain specific medical scenarios to patients and their loved ones. It’s become an invaluable resource for the frequent situations where my ER ward is too busy or short-staffed for explaining complex medical diagnoses in a way that is accurate but easy to understand.