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I don't see this as a problem because 90% of doctor visits are for medical issues so simple they can easily be handled by nurses. Seeing a doctor for every med

• jdietrich 3y ago
  The problem is that it's impossible for anyone to reliably recognise when they're working beyond their competence, particularly in a field as complex and uncertain as medicine. A lot of serious and life-threatening diseases have subtle symptoms and are easily mistaken for more common diagnoses. The decision to refer someone for urgent tests often relies upon half-remembered trivia from medical school or long-honed clinical instincts. Replacing GPs with NPs will inevitably cause preventable deaths, the question is simply how many deaths we're willing to tolerate. That may be a perfectly reasonable tradeoff in health economics terms, but we have to be frank about it. I am hopeful that AI will go some way to bridging the gap between healthcare supply and demand, but at least in the short term we face a lot of difficult choices about how to allocate resources.
• igetspam 3y ago
  It's a huge problem if you're in your theoretical 10%. Ask me how my chronic pain suffering spouse fairs. Six years without even an inkling of a diagnosis. They've had things cut out, things put in, bones fused. The medical system has crippled them more than we ever imagined (not an exaggeration) and we get a lot of "that's interesting" and "my part looks fine, tell me which new doctor I should forward this to." They've also had many comments that they're very complicated and then doctors seems to just fade away because the don't want to mess up their record.