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Did you encounter any instances of hallucinations or omissions?

One would image those to be the biggest dangers.

Hallucinations are pretty minimal but present. Some lazy physicians are gonna get burned by thinking they can just zone out during the interview and let this do all the work.

I edited my original post. Omissions are less worrisome, it’s more about too much information being captured which isn’t relevant. So you get these super long notes and it’s hard to separate the “wheat from the chaff”.

> Some lazy physicians are gonna get burned by thinking they can just zone out during the interview and let this do all the work.

How many patients are going to that physician, they’re going to get burned too

Seems like capturing too much irrelevant detail would be preferable to potentially missing important details, though?

When people are nervous/scared (as they are with doctors) they start rambling about all sorts of things. I had somebody rambling about the Lion King musical versus the lion King cartoon recently, instead of telling me about their recent heart attack. The ‘art’ of medicine is redirecting the patient to provide the most important/relevant information.

In addition, doctors have finite attention span/hours of the day. Nobody wants to read paragraphs upon paragraphs of information.

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