[drusepth]

This isn't feasible for a huge swathe of the USA, often because of costs/insurance but sometimes literally just accessibility/availability. A few years ago it took me nearly 8 months to find a PCP in my city that was accepting new patients (and, wee, they dropped my insurance less than a year after).

[lm28469]

> often because of costs/insurance but sometimes literally just accessibility/availability.

These are self inflicted problems, we should work on these and improve them, not give up and rely on llms for everything

[ogogmad]

Is there a proven and guaranteed way to do this? Because otherwise it sounds very idealistic, almost like "if everything were somehow better, then things would be less bad". Doctor time will always be scarce. It sounds like it delays helping people in the here and now in order to solve some very complicated system-wide problem.

LLMs might make doctors cheaper (and reduce their pay) by lowering demand for them. The law of supply and demand then implies that care will be cheaper. Do we not want cheaper care? Similarly, LLMs reduce the backlog, so patients who do need to see a doctor can be seen faster, and they don't need as many visits.

LLMs can also break the stranglehold of medical schools: It's easier to become an auto-didact using an LLM since an LLM can act like a personal tutor, by answering questions about the medical field directly.

LLMs might be one of the most important technologies in medicine.

[lm28469]

What do you do when we're finally under the critical mass of doctors needed to make new discoveries ?

Who's responsible when the llm fucks up ?

&c.

All of your points sound like the classic junior "I can code that in 2 days" naive take on a problem.

[hermanzegerman]

Every other industrialised nation on the planet has figured this out, still some idiots play dumb and ask if the problem is really solvable

[drusepth]

I think the "we" that can work on these systemic problems and actually improve them are a very different "we" than those of us who just need basic health care right now and will take anything "we" can get.

[blipvert]

Maybe time to ask AI why you’re looking for a technical solution rather than addressing the gaslighting that has left you with such piss-poor medical care in the richest country on earth?

[AstroBen]

Everyone knows this is a problem. No-one it effects has enough power to change it

[thunky]

Already know the answer, don't need AI for that one.

[simianwords]

Maybe time to use a genuinely useful tech instead of trying to solve an actual hard problem by handwaving difficult problems?

[ndsipa_pomu]

Seems to me like the "difficult problem" is solved in pretty much every other rich country in the world.

[simianwords]

if its not solved in the richest country maybe its not so easy to solve unless you want to hand wave the diffuclt parts and just describe it as "rich people being greedy"

[ndsipa_pomu]

It's such a dysfunctional situation that the "rich people being greedy" is the most likely explanation. Either that or the U.S. citizenry are uniquely stupid amongst rich countries.