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kakacik 6 hours ago

As a husband of wife who is GP, I would add a general long term issue - cognitive overload. GPs have to be almost-expert in everything, my wife is doing everything from preliminary cancer diagnosis and treatment, heart attack diagnosis to psychiatric care and many other places in between which should be normally covered by specialists. But there are simply not enough of them here for many tasks here (Switzerland). Any mistake can be potentially fatal to the patient, easily, trivially.

The amount of self-imposed stress and responsibility compared to puny insignificant software dev roles like mine is staggering. And its every single day, no easy day, ever.

On top of that, 3-4 hours daily just doing paperwork for insurances, legal, judges etc. that has to be flawless. LLms can help massively here, but it would be great if they are opt-in for patient (and thus he can get better focus of doctor / longer time spent / lower meeting cost), and if they could be local-only. Absolutely nobody from anywhere in Europe wants to send any data to US nor any of their closer servers, that game is closed for good.

kelnos 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Even with how overworked GPs are, what makes you think that the LLMs will have a lower error rate? Or that errors the GP makes will be more severe than the LLM's errors?