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newtonkooky t1_j8iatpb wrote

Low level doctors are imo the most likely to be replaced by AI, a general practioner has told me fuck all that I didn’t know from just googling in the last 10 years. These days I already go to a lab on my own to check my blood work,

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ALurkerForcedToLogin t1_j8iitwl wrote

Anyone can use Google, but I pay my doctor for their decade of med school and years of experience. They have the experience to know that it is actually not cancer, no matter what Web MD is telling me.

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_Roark t1_j8itnhk wrote

and how many shitty doctors did you have to go through before you got that one?

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ALurkerForcedToLogin t1_j8iutus wrote

None. Your first appointment with a doctor is a chance to get to know each other a little bit. You provide info about your health history, current status, and future goals, and you ask questions about how they will be able to help you meet your health goals. If they don't sound like they're going to be able to do what you need, then no hard feelings, they're just not the doctor for you, so you find another. Doctors have different specialties and focuses, and they have different approaches and proficiencies. Your job as a patient is to find a doctor with skills that align to your needs.

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Call_Me_Thom t1_j8j7z45 wrote

No single doctor has knowledge about everything but an AI does. You do not need to find a doctor that works for you or a doctor whose schedule fits yours when AI takes care of you. It’s available for everyone anytime and also has the whole human knowledge base.

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wam654 t1_j8k562e wrote

Available for everyone any time? Fat chance. Computation time on a super computer isn’t free. The dataset isn’t free. Liability isn’t resolved. The team of phds who built it didn’t work for free. And only the whole of human knowledge that it has license to access or it’s dataset was trained on. Most of the data it would need is not public domain and would likely be heavily guarded and monetized.

That’s just the dataset The ai doctor still needs data about you to make conclusions. That means lab tests, scheduling, cost considerations, etc.

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_Roark t1_j8izvye wrote

i don't know why you're talking to me like I'm 5 and have never dealt with doctors before

i could say more, but i doubt there would be any point

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ALurkerForcedToLogin t1_j8j2ncm wrote

I'm not talking to you like you're five. I answered your question. If you don't like it, then don't read it.

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Ghune t1_j8idpp9 wrote

Replace?

No touching? I don't want this doctor.

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Cybiu5 t1_j8jxbkr wrote

GPs are genuinely useless unless you're after paracetamol or a doctor's note

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Littlegator t1_j8iq113 wrote

Ironically probably farthest from the truth. Generalists have to know the most. Specialists are far more likely to get bored with their career because they "learn it all" pretty quickly, and practice-changing updates happen like once a year if even.

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