alt Hacker NewsDespite what I suspect the general consensus on HN may be, this does not surprise me at all.
My wife was recently diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) after a pretty scary series of ER visits. It's a very strange and stubborn autoimmune disease that manifests with a number of symptoms that, taken individually, could indicate damn near anything.
You could almost feel the doctors rolling their eyes as she explained her symptoms and medical history.
Anyway... it lit a bit of a fire in me to dig deeper, and one day Claude suggested MCAS. I started plugging in more labs, asking for Claude to cross-reference journals mentioning MCAS, and sure enough: it's MCAS.
idk what the moral of the story is except our current medical system is a joke. The doctors aren't the villains, but they sure aren't the heroes either.
The quality of doctors is really uneven, and the amount of things they can and have to pattern match on grows each year. I definitely hope they at least adopt AI tooling to ease their pattern matching burden. There is no reason AI needs to replace doctors, I think as it is in SWE doctors are still needed to guide and check the AI in its search for solutions.
Of course, there are plenty of places on earth that are extremely under doctored, and AI will definitely be better than nothing in poor regions of Africa if all it needs is a network connection and someone to donate the tokens.