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Yes and being able to buy and take whatever you want has led to rampant antibiotics abuse. Unfortunately medicine at the high level always has to cater to the

Yes and being able to buy and take whatever you want has led to rampant antibiotics abuse. Unfortunately medicine at the high level always has to cater to the lowest common denominator. Personally, while I agree AI can probably take up some of the mundane triage I have some reservations about AI in its current LLM form being a good judge as patients are unreliable narrators and doctors rely on many senses and heuristics to make their recommendations. An AI fine tuned to be a doctor with perfect health data and patient history is an interesting prospect, especially given the loss of the "family doctor" but that kind of data collection is a way away and has other Pandora's box considerations

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- AStonesThrow 1y ago
  Um, I hate to burst your bubble, but antibiotics are not prescribed at all for viral infections, because viruses are not vulnerable to antibiotics. Therefore you are definitely right about the current and traditional "best cure" for the flu! Antibiotics must only be prescribed against bacterial type infections, and that is indeed one of the reasons a physician's consult is required, so that the physician can discern whether it's viral or bacterial, and choose an appropriate course of action. Malpractice indeed for making such a rookie mistake. Pneumonia, being frequently caused by bacteria, is definitely something they'll prescribe antibiotics for, so a positive diagnosis would be a key first step there. So it is quite telling, isn't it, that many people believe that taking antibiotics can cure viral infections, because if they were OTC they could really get abused in that respect, couldn't they!