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I wouldn't be surprised if AI was better than going to GP or many other specialists in majority of cases.
And the issue is not with the doctors themselves, but the complexity of human body.
Like many digestive issues can cause migraines or a ton of other problems. I am yet to see when someone is referred to gut health professional because of the migraine.
And a lot of similar cases when absolutely random system causes issues in seemingly unrelated system.
A lot of these problems are not life threatening thus just get ignored as they would take too much effort and cost to pinpoint.
AI on the other hand should be pretty good at figuring out those vague issues that you would never figured out otherwise.
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And speaking of migraines, even neurological causes can apparently be tricky: Around here, cluster headaches would go without proper diagnosis for about 10 years on average. In my case, it also took about 10 years and 3 very confused GPs before one would refer me to a neurologist who in turn would come up with the diagnosis in about 30 seconds.
> AI on the other hand should be pretty good at figuring out those vague issues that you would never figured out otherwise.
Not least because it almost certainly has orders of magnitude more data to work with than your average GP (who definitely doesn't have the time to keep up with reading all the papers and case studies you'd need to even approach a "full view".)