Posted by engmarketer 11 hours ago
No... I told ChatGPT exactly what I told you and it came up with the answer: Chillblains, which should have been obvious given everything I described, yet general practitioners were clueless and often reached for high intervention approaches
Harmless condition fixed by wearing socks. I brought it up with the same GPs who had misdiagnosed me and none had heard of it.
Of course, I'm cognizant that it could be mistaken, but a hospital fed my diabetic aunt a normal sugar diet while she was in a coma and forgot to give her metformin, so I mean, it's not like humans can't be retarded as well. The difference is no one gets offended when I point out ChatGPT has the capacity to be an idiot. Instead they just fix it.
But are you all forgetting that they literally injected a homeopathic drug on the author?
Between that and Claude sometimes hallucinating, it’s probably worth encouraging patients to take second opinion always.
I'm no fan of pseudoscience either, but this is where things get blurry. The placebo effect is real even if patients are aware of it. If you give a patient a homeopathic drug while informing them of potential side effects (if any), and then they feel better, have you hurt them? Or have you helped them?
I personally have no interest in trying homeopathic medicines, but the reality is that many patients do take these and are adamant they help. As long as any risks are communicated and there are no serious side effects, it's difficult to make an argument against their use in patients who report a subjective benefit.
I want to know if this is a religious thing, or is related to never having had multiple doctors so bad it seemed like they were actively trying to kill you, or both. I've never had this peaceful experience personally within the realm of healthcare.
> AI can absolutely shatter that feeling in an uncomfortable way
Good. Reality is always good.
> but I don't know if I can fully trust AI either.
WTF??!? Why on earth would anybody ever think they could fully trust LLMs? Even their most vocal proponents concede they aren't infallible panaceas.
On the plus side when they do this they can't flood your calendar with those "quick chat" meetings because they know they won't be able to hold a conversation on the issue beyond the first minute.
I find that AI can be incredibly useful, but just text dumping its output into a conversation feels insulting.
AI probably exacerbates it but crappy managers exist regardless
They give me what they'd like the UI to look like, but none of the actual content fits outside the one situation they're thinking of.
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Thankfully where I work now everyone is good about taking no for an answer.