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‘I'm choosing not to have it’: Some people are saying no to Dr’s using AI (www.abc.net.au)
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Nearly one in four GPs nationally are believed to be using AI digital scribes for note-taking, according to the Australian Medical Association (AMA). Other practitioners, like psychologists and podiatrists, are also using the technology.

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[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally just came from the doctor's office (Sydney) and saw a poster about AI transcription usage on the wall.

Pros I can see:

  • More time back for doctors
  • This may in turn lead to better patient outcomes.

Cons I can see:

  • Higher rates of adverse medical outcomes due to inaccuracies & hallucinations in patient notes
  • Higher chance of personal data breaches due to third parties holding and handling private materials.

There are so many issues here. The fact GPs are in a position of thinking this tradeoff is worth it is caused by a cluster of problems. The fact big companies are convincing them this is acceptable is another layer. The history of big tech companies selling such data off to special interest groups (anti-abortion, real estate, etc) a third.

LLM companies are desperate for people to buy their products because nothing is profitable in the AI industry (other than selling the shovels like Nvidia does).

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

FYI, a medical scribe is a job that a ton of people do. Not all doctors do their own transcription, or have their nursing staff do it. Often one that people looking at getting into medicine do for additional learning.

All the AI is going to do is misunderstand and hallucinate responses like they do with everything else. It's clear that the issues with LLM-based AI are above standard human error at this point.

There is no advantage here either than removing yet another person's job for a worse result.