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As almost every comment of this kind on this site, you are missing the wider socioprofessional context. Yeah sure, you may find papers about plenty of things th
by rscho 3y ago
As almost every comment of this kind on this site, you are missing the wider socioprofessional context. Yeah sure, you may find papers about plenty of things that may affect you without your doc's knowledge, perhaps even guidelines that are to be followed.
The problem is that respecting every detail of every guideline all the time is pretty much impossible, and even a debatable stance. There are many committees producing guidelines left and right. Because those people's jobs are to produce guidelines, not care for people. The exact same goes for research papers, and validity for patients in practice is a difficult issue.
So, docs all practice mostly from habit and experience. It's a craft supported by science, but clinical medicine itself is science as much as bricklaying is a science. But that doesn't make AI the use-all-do-all, because if everybody starts to test for every little thing, diagnostic probabilities will decrease massively and guidelines would have to adjusted in conséquence. It's a feedback loop. And also, you'd pay 5x the price for healthcare, so not realistic.
- doix 3y ago> But that doesn't make AI the use-all-do-all, because if everybody starts to test for every little thing, diagnostic probabilities will decrease massively and guidelines would have to adjusted in conséquence. It's a feedback loop. And also, you'd pay 5x the price for healthcare, so not realistic. It's hard for me to write out all my thoughts on the subject, but I completely agree with this. The paper cherry-picked difficult cases and compared how AI deals with them vs regular clinicians. I think that is something AI will excel at because there is no cost to being "wrong", as long as something it spews out is correct. In difficult to diagnose cases, that kind of makes sense. Find the answer at "any cost". But you cannot apply that to every case. If you let the AI loose on fairly simple cases, I bet it would over complicate many simple things, because it couldn't handle the nuance of people coming in and just whining about a regular cold. "Patient comes in with a headache, might be brain cancer but might be a cold" ~ type DDx.