| It correctly diagnosed appendicitis and also gave me an interesting differential. It did not correctly identify acute myocardial infarction and probable COVID-19 infection, but they were in the differential. The software needs to be better at taking medical history. It doesn't try to figure out the symptoms. I input abdominal pain and instead of asking where it hurts and what the pain feels like it asked me if I have dyspepsia. I input chest pain and it asked me if I have angina pectoris. How is a patient supposed to know? These are conclusions the doctor is supposed to reach based on the signs, symptoms, physical examination and tests. I clicked on the information button for angina pectoris. Here's what it says: > Angina pectoris is a term that describes chest pain due to myocardial ischemia. > It is a common presenting symptom among patients with coronary artery disease. It says nothing about what the pain is like. There's no way a patient would know. I decided to make it easy for the software by answering yes to the above question... Myocardial infarction was the fourth item in the differential! It thinks pheochromocytoma is more likely. > Is there enlargement of the liver? > Is there generalized Lymphadenopathy? > Is there enlargement of the spleen? > Is there atrial fibrillation? > Is there cardiac arrhythmia? How would they know? Are people supposed to perform a physical examination on themselves? People go to medical school in order to learn how to do this. I've seen people who don't know where the liver and spleen are. |