I have to say it...I told you so!
Doctors using AI for patient care
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I have to say it...I told you so!
garnetsilver
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IMO, they are already doing this. l swear, people in doctor's offices aren't thinking for themselves, but reading replies off of a screen.
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Yes, it's already in play at my hospital. I verified that myself while there. And my NP who is my primary does everything her computer tells her to do...which is to basically be a triage stop to send you on to a specialist for any and all things other than a sniffle.
garnetsilver
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This also enables more billing! I really dislike making an appointment for a problem, only to find that I have to make a second one before anything is actually done about it.
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Which, in my case, the second appt. will not occur until a month AFTER I went in to see about the problem in the first place!
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I cannot help but think that this will affect the health of the patient. There is something about the human element in the equation.
Selectric
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Well health care was broken far before AI. That is an insurance, doctor/hospital, pharmaceutical problem/debacle. Oh can't help you for three months. Go to an urgent care that probably costs as much as a stay in the hospital. Sorry, you are only allowed two visitors, though the patient in same room can have 10 visitors all eating fast food and making a racket. My friend and i and co-workers all joke about our career. If someone called us for a breaker issue, it'd be like us saying nope, gotta see the breaker specialist. Oh, you have a receptacle issue...you'll have to talk to a receptacle specialist. I mean c'mon health care. It's beyond the point of ridiculous now. Go to a hospital and see just how many of the staff are standing around doing absolutely nothing (not just health care this happens). At least stand there and read a patient's chart or something constructive for the costs people are being charged for. You see a real doctor for 1.2 minutes (if lucky) and are charged out the wazoo. $20 for one ibuprofen?! The list goes on and on. If AI could somehow make that better, i could get onboard with it. Also the AI won't complain about having to pay the college tuition like a human does for the career path they chose. Sorry, rant over for now lol.
Welp. After once being assigned a GP who probably shouldn't be practicing medicine;
I would've been better off with a Magic 8-Ball.
I would've been better off with a Magic 8-Ball.
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If it was used only as an assist device, it might be helpful. The problem is hospitals and medical personnel are now instructed to follow the instructions spit out of the computer, so it is now leading the care given. That has recently been my personal experience. And believe me, I asked.