[palata]

Yes, and that's a problem. Doctors (or experts in general) hate it when people don't trust them, but the thing with experts is that people have to trust them. And in my life (and a few times just in the last few years), enough doctors have been wrong enough that I cannot just trust them anymore [1]. If it is important, I will ask them to explain to me, and sometimes I will just ask for a second opinion.

I have read about doctors complaining that "with AI, patients now come with their own diagnosis and don't trust us when we say it's bullshit, and it is a problem". I can feel for them, but if they give the feeling that they don't listen to the patients and the patients don't trust them, it's not only the patients' fault, I would say.

[1]: I have more than one examples of my relatives like this: A doctor says "wow that's bad go to the ER", the ER says "nope it's all good, go home", first doctor learns about that and says "WTF you GO TO THE ER, call me and I will insult them on the phone", and finally resulting in a surgery where the doctors say "they were lucky we could operate right now, because in a matter of hours they could have died from this". How in the world can I trust them after one event like this? Happened to me (in some variation) 3 times. Not based on an LLM diagnosis in the first place: based on a doctor's diagnosis.

[rockostrich]

Heh, I hear stories like that everyday from my partner who is an ICU nurse. Not as dire, but there are constant inter-department arguments about moving patients because of resource constraints and the ICU could end up completely understaffed/resource constrained if the wrong NP or charge nurse is working. I'm amazed our healthcare system works at all to be honest.