I’ve had much better luck with diagnosis of my own family’s issues than with doctors. Usually now, I’m feeding them more information to begin with, so that their 30 minute office visits are not wasted, requiring another expensive follow up appointment.

While I’m sure there can be ways in which such studies are wrong, it’s very obvious that AI can accelerate work in many of these areas where we seek out professional help - doctors, lawyers, etc.

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kakacik 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It can speed up some aspects of work, but please don't trust some llm with variable quality of output more than professional. If you don't like current doctor try another, most are in the business of helping other people.

If you have string of issues with 10 last doctors though, then issue is, most probably, you...

My wife is a GP, and easily 1/3 of her patients have also some minor-but-visible mental issue. 1-2 out of 10 scale. Makes them still functional in society but... often very hard to be around with.

That doesn't mean I don't trust your words, there are tons of people with either rare issues or even fairly common ones but manifesting in non-standard way (or mixed with some other issue). These folks suffer a lot to find a doctor who doesn't bunch them up in some general state with generic treatment. There are those, but not that often.

It helps both sides tremendously if patient is not above or arrogant know-it-all waving with chatgpt into doctor's face and basically just coming for prescription after self-diagnosis. Then, help is sometimes proportional to situation and lawful obligations.

	▲	aduwah 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It makes me so upset when anyone even tries to defend the GPs. I admittedly I have a bunch of medical issues and these gems are my favourites from the GPs. 1. I cannot see the tonsil on the left side, so it is OK. (there was a 6cm!!! cyst in front of it) 2. After missing sky high TSH measures consistently for 2 years (4 testst) : "It must have been a few one offs" (no it wasn't and it is not even possible) 3. "Blood pressure has nothing to do with weight" These %#£&* so called medical professionals are still working and most likely killing people legally. These days I research and read studies, arm myself with knowledge, cross check with multiple LLMs and go in with a diagnosis and request a specific prescription. After 5 years with my health in the gutter I had my first comprehensive private blood test coming back with no issues. So no, do not try to call me arrogant. I am not arrogant, I am defending myself from these "GPs" so they won't put me in an early grave by making fatal mistakes.
	▲	llbbdd 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Respectfully, as someone with a family with plenty of medical issues and having experienced plenty of useless doctors, the onus is now on medical professionals to prove their worth. They are a second option and most of their remaining value is in the license to prescribe medication, after being told by laymen what medication is appropriate. They're using the same tools I am and they're worse at evaluating them. Doctors thinking patients are arrogant is an age old problem.
	▲	SilverElfin 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Doctors simply don’t have time to prepare for patients. They are so tightly scheduled and usually they’re trying to get our appointments over with as quickly as possible. For example they aren’t going through all the test results and connecting dots. They just don’t have the time to examine things that closely and prepare. The thing you’re describing about bunching patients into general states with generic treatment - that’s the majority of GPs I’ve seen over the years, sadly. I don’t think it’s because of incompetence as much as economics. They have to see a certain number of patients and make things work.