alt Hacker NewsOften doctors miss rare diseases and gaslight patients that they don't have them.
AI is great for this since it has encyclopedic knowledge.
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The problem might be more that doctors don’t want to order expensive tests for those rare conditions .
AI might have similar reservations depending on standard of care
Which they (probably?) should otherwise they will overtreat their patients for false positives.
The diseases don't even have to be rare:
Here in the UK, they will try their hardest to not refer to the consultant, will do the basic blood tests and tell you that you are all right, take pain killers or anti allergy medicine. Its such a terrible system
I wonder if any doctors feel depressed about losing "creativity", or are instead yeah I can help diagnose and cure more people.
The first time I heard "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras" I was appalled. How about we just empirically determine where the hoofbeats are coming from before eliminating the killer zebras as a possibility?