yapyap 18 hours ago

if your use of chatgpt saves you from a trip to the doctor I would be very concerned

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  • kaonwarb 18 hours ago

    Early days, but not as crazy as it sounds: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

    "The LLM alone scored 16 percentage points (95% CI, 2-30 percentage points; P = .03) higher than the conventional resources group."

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    • asmor 15 hours ago

      Would be much more interesting if this ranked based on severity of misdiagnosis. An LLM that is 50% better at diagnosing a common cold but missed sepsis 10% more often would not be an overall improvement.

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  • dragonwriter 15 hours ago

    ChatGPT is probably adequate to provide a slightly more user-friendly but also slight-less-reliable replacement for a reliable consumer-oriented medical reference book or website for the task of determining whether self-care without seeing a doctor or seeing a doctor is appropriate for symptoms not obviously posing an immediate emergency.

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  • ekianjo 18 hours ago

    Most doctor visits are for benign matters...

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    • BobaFloutist 18 hours ago

      The point of the doctorate is for them to make that determination.

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      • gertlex 17 hours ago

        More constructively, the middle ground of asking a doctor about some minor symptoms over async messaging or tele-appointments (whatever the term for those is), is probably always something to consider for the trivial stuff.

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      • elevaet 17 hours ago

        My partner works in emergency. Someone came in with a blister on their finger yesterday. They had to see the patient and send them home with a bandaid. Not a good use of resources.

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      • realusername 16 hours ago

        Yes and no, you really don't need a deep expertise to diagnose the very common illness.

        And that's where chatgpt is doing great.

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      • ekianjo 16 hours ago

        There is no need to nitpick obvious comments. If you have a running nose and fever in winter, it's 99.99% a cold and a doctor visit will do nothing to help you, yet millions of people waste doctors time for that

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croes 15 hours ago

If ChatGPT somehow makes you eat more burgers it could make it makes water consumption worse.

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