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Part of this is by design - from medical school, doctors are quite literally taught "when you hear hoof beats think horses, not zebras." The progression and flo
by gundmc 3y ago
Part of this is by design - from medical school, doctors are quite literally taught "when you hear hoof beats think horses, not zebras." The progression and flow the decision trees in diagnosis are built to find the most common ailments in the most efficient way. It sucks for people whose conditions are further down the tree, but generally it does what it was designed to do.
Hopefully technology like this can help us rethink those decision trees, or else crunch more patient-specific information to adjust the diagnosis process on an individual level more efficiently.
- ProllyInfamous 3y agoI dropped out of medical school fifteen years ago — entered another [non-tech] profession entirely - and there's one thing I always tell either of the following groups: Said to physicians: "I dropped out and I TELL EVERYBODY I KNOW you cannot pay a doctor enough for all the unnecessary sacrifices they had to make, just to prescribe you an antibiotic." ...to Non-physicians: "While I believe that you cannot pay physicians enough for their sacrifices, you should definitely investigate your own ailments, and seek multiple opinions whenever your `gut feeling` indicates `abnormal`. Physicians simply DO NOT HAVE TIME to give a fuck about your specifics. More recently, I have included (to all) "it is probably ALREADY UNETHICAL TO NOT BE CONSULTING WITH LLMs during differential diagnoses." Just my ¢¢
- Tostino 3y agoNot yet. Your faith in people not being led astray by the LLM is too high right now IMO. I've seen way too many people who I consider generally intelligent, completely falling for the convincing bullshit. Mostly in my online communities, but also a few times in person.