Get healthy and exercise because your next doctor will have cheated with chatgpt.
-Aristotle, Civilization V (2010)
I understand appointments have a time limit, but perhaps it would be beneficial to batch process this.
What I'm really shocked about is that new AI tools are now fast enough—and regulated enough—to be used live at the point of care.
So why do I need to pay doctors as much money, when they themselves are using an off the shelf solution?
Also, we still need doctors to perform physical tasks, like surgery. The doctors diagnosing stuff and the doctors performing surgery aren't different doctors, usually. When I got diagnosed with Testicular cancer, the urologist who felt my balls up and said "yeah, this ain't right" was also the one who removed the testicle. And, he wasn't the first doctor I went to - the other doctor clearly had not felt up enough balls. He said it could be X, could be Y, maybe Z. Not the urologist, he knew right away. So, I think it's more complex.
When I finally got an in-person tête-a-tête, the guy was just Googling stuff -- I mean he was not even looking on IRS.gov, just Google -- and I got so pissed I walked right out.
So ironically, the best advice I found, the best distillation of good information, was through Google's Gemini LLM. I asked Gemini many tax questions, and it was able to cogently answer them with correct terminology, and enough correct advice that I was able to navigate the IRS.gov publications and corroborate them from the horse's mouth.
So at this point I feel like engaging an LLM in particular topics is far more productive than engaging a human on the front-lines. The humans are poorly trained, underpaid, overworked, and unreliable.
Do you have some stats to back that up?
I predict triage will be converted to AI who will be able to offer minor prescriptions, stuff unavailable to over the counter, without doctor oversight. Like allergies, rashes, insect stuff, fungal or worms. Will likely be able to reduce medical load by treating people who just need to be sent to get over the counter stuff.
> but come on, medicine is such a disaster its should be completley rebooted)
Agreed, but is AI the right move? Do you really want to be the first one to try it?
In Europe you can just buy those sort of things outright in many cases. Things like inhalers can just be had without getting a doctor on board.
I believe it's a uniquely US thing where the doctor needs to collect a well visit fee on you treating yourself for a common or chronic illness.
"You still have asthma? OK, here is permission from my caste to breathe, pay the fee on your way out." Is bonkers when you think about it.
As far as I know, only "narcotics" (opiates, psychostimulants...) require regular check-ins (due to byzantine legislation) - but even that's been worked around with one-click refill requests and telehealth.
You need a established relationship to access one click refill and telehealth, they will tell you to come in after a time.