I'm a BIG supporter of using things like ChatGPT, google, and sci-hub to do your own medical research because the whole system where some physician diagnoses you based on an extremely limited amount of data collected in a haphazard manner after a few minutes of observation because he's experienced and smart or whatever is incredibly dumb. The way people hold it up as the ethical standard which we cannot deviate from because it would be too dangerous is utterly baffling to me. The status quo totally lacks ethics and mostly serves to line the pockets of a cartel of doctors with a monopoly on access to medication and treatment who often condescendingly think patients are simply too irrational to treat themselves without their help.
I legitimately cannot wait for this field to mature and medical self-help with AI assistance becomes the norm.
When I finally blacked out and fractured my spine, first responders detected a lifelong cardiac arrhythmia in the back of an ambulance. Only with that knowledge have I been able to receive treatment and begin to heal emotionally from the gaslighting and medical abuse I experienced while in the care of licensed professionals.
AI-assisted medicine will prevent so many of these mistakes in the future. It can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned.
I had to see the only available PCP to see anyone else. This automatically prompted medical releases that, even if unethical, would have still made everything technically legal. If it was an emergency room trip, there were always the same two or three physicians there, so they all became aware of me from the first couple of episodes and could warn any specialist they referred me to see.
Same deal with laboratories and radiological facilities. When you've got only one or two options in town, they have your consent to release PHI by default if you ever want the results interpreted, and their interpreting physician can just accompany the report with a courtesy call to the receiving provider about a suspected diagnosis.
I hope that more founders build and innovate in the field to provide efficiencies throughout the whole system to lower costs and provide high quality care for everyone that needs it.
Some insurance providers need a primary care physician for referral, but some do not, so one area we're doing research is if we can do referrals through doctor follow-up/verfication from summary of chat.
Especially the people that will read about diseases and get anxious they have them, and while you can validly say they have anxiety issues they don't have whatever they just read about 99% of the time.
Even if there's a real disease of some sort, you don't want to diagnose with the latest guess in someone that keeps guessing different things. Their treatment needs improvement, but confirmation bias is not how you do it.
And it's pretty clear that for many people, they don't feel like their needs are being met.