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This is (was?) the most accurate crowdsourced medical site I know of. Only providers, i.e., ER doctors, may edit, and it only targets providers and residents.
by w10-1 3y ago
This is (was?) the most accurate crowdsourced medical site I know of.
Only providers, i.e., ER doctors, may edit, and it only targets providers and residents.
ER doctors focus on quickly segregating acute issues into urgent, critical, and all the rest, making this a great site for differential diagnosis from symptoms/presentation and initial labs. Because ER docs could be dealing with anything, they need quick and brief references. So it's not for pathology or mechanisms, explanations in any depth, and not tailored for patients.
It's almost sad to see such a carefully tended garden, fruit of so much effort, and so open in the spirit of the early internet. It will be soon be consumed by AI and then displaced. The incentive to write or edit might completely disappear when the information is available primarily via regurgitation.
- CaptainFever 3y ago> The incentive to write or edit might completely disappear when the information is available primarily via regurgitation. This is a strange non sequitur. The incentive to write and edit has always been the same: you want to share information you found with the world. Information availability has nothing to do with editing incentives. I don't even see how this has anything to do with AI. The doomerism is getting quite annoying.
- snakeyjake 3y agoGiven the quality of even bleeding-edge AI it will take a several epoch-making quantum leaps in exponential improvement before I trust it over a dart thrown at cards randomly placed on a dartboard when it comes to medical matters.
- tux3 3y agoI have it from the horse's mouth that some doctors are already experimenting with it regularly (GPT-4, not ChatGPT). It's not always right, but medicine is about memorizing unreasonable amounts of information, and the bot sometimes does catch less common things that multiple humans have missed. Of course the difference between regular users and doctors is they can tell if GPT is confabulating or giving explanations that make no sense. I wouldn't recommend anyone go and blindly trust what comes out of the pile of linear algebra, it's not quite there yet.
- Mathnerd314 3y agoNot sure what the "was" is for, it seems like it is still active, several edits in the past few days: https://wikem.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidenewpages=1&hidelog=1&limit=50&days=7&enhanced=1&urlversion=2 https://wikem.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hide...