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by gumballindie 959 days ago
> The real shift will come when agents can help patients do basic triage, get advice about how to deal with health problems

Yeah could you f**ng not? I pay taxes and insurance to get proper medical guidance, not answers from a bot. Public healthcare in the uk is nearly dead anyway and their patch fixes are to use “virtual” nonsense, while private healthcare is riddled by “ai” that does nothing but annoy customers. BabylonHealth, a former uk ai “healthcare” darling, rightfully went under because among many things it was gibberish.
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famouswaffles 959 days ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425828/

Use of GPT-4 to Analyze Medical Records of Patients With Extensive Investigations and Delayed Diagnosis

"Six patients 65 years or older (2 women and 4 men) were included in the analysis. The accuracy of the primary diagnoses made by GPT-4, clinicians, and Isabel DDx Companion was 4 of 6 patients (66.7%), 2 of 6 patients (33.3%), and 0 patients, respectively. If including differential diagnoses, the accuracy was 5 of 6 (83.3%) for GPT-4, 3 of 6 (50.0%) for clinicians, and 2 of 6 (33.3%) for Isabel DDx Companion"

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nullindividual 959 days ago
That's great the bot can tell you that you have cancer, congrats. It isn't human, can't comfort the cancer patient, can't actually _help_ the cancer patient in any meaningful way to solve their issue.

AI is not intelligence. It lacks empathy. It lacks just about everything a doctor does except regurgitate diagnosis based on data -- data gathered by doctors.

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gumballindie 959 days ago
Ah yes, a study made on six patients. Very science, fits the pattern.

But this alone invalidates the paper:

“AI relies on clinical imaging.1 In low-income countries, where specialist care may be lacking”

Have they been to a british hospital recently? Specialist care scarcity is fast approaching that of low income countries. The only option left is the poor man’s choice - chatbots.

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famouswaffles 959 days ago
>Ah yes, a study made on six patients. Very science, fits the pattern.

Still a highly non trivial result.

>But this alone invalidates the paper:

“AI relies on clinical imaging.1 In low-income countries, where specialist care may be lacking”

How does that invalidate the paper ?

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