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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

To be blunt, if you were to train a gpt model on all the current medical information available, it actually might be a good starting point for most doctors to "collaborate" with and formulate theories on more difficult cases.

However, since GPT and list other LLMs are trained on information generally available on the Internet, they're not going to come up with anything that could possibly be trusted in any field where bad decisions could mean life or death.

It's basically advanced text prediction based on whatever intent statements you made in your prompt. So if you can feed a bunch of symptoms into a machine learning model, that's been trained on the sum of all relatively recent medical texts and case work, that would have some relevant results.

Since chat gpt isn't that, heh. I doubt it would even help someone pass medical school, quite bluntly... Apart from the hiring boiler plate stuff and filling in words and sentences that just take time to write out and don't contribute in any significant manner to the content of their work. (Eg, introduction paragraphs, sentence structures for entering information and conclusions... Etc).

There's a lot of good, time saving stuff ML, in its current form, can do, diagnostics, not so much.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Yeah people think all doctors were straight A students thru med school. Ya'd never know if the one treating you right now was a C- muthafucka.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

You also don't know if the guy that got an A was cheating

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 hours ago

Med school isn’t easy bro

That C+ doctor retained more knowledge and has a better intuition that the chatGPT doctor

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

I'll take a Dr with enough real world experience to have good intuition over a recently graduated straight-A doc any day.

But this is why doctors have like 8 years of practical, hands on experience with oversight before they're allowed to actually practice solo in most places. They spend more time learning hands on, than they do in class.

Even a straight-C "level" doctor should be more than prepared to handle whatever you their their way. Even if they don't know, they probably know how to find out, or who to ask.

[–] Triti@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, just passing med school, even by the slimmest margins, is no easy feat. The idea that a doctor who got D- grades is somehow bad is wrong because they're still good enough to pass an extremely difficult program.

Yeah, I'd be more comfortable with an A+ doctor, but a doctor still graduated from med school, you know?

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If you could pick between two doctors, one A student and one D student, you know you'd pick the A student.

But what if the A student was from some sketchy barely accredited medical school and the D student was from Johns Hopkins.

Who do you pick now?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

What if that straight A student from Johns Hopkins develops an opioid addiction and becomes an insufferable asshole but can still manages to oversee the Differential Diagnosis Department?

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Does he have a cane that I can kick out from under him when he acts afool?

[–] vocornflakes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm cured AND I get told to face my scary inner issues.

[–] ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago
[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

Haven't you heard that one 'joke,' what do you call the student that passed with the lowest grade in med school?....Doctor.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Ds get degrees

[–] Norrdec@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

Cant wait for vibedoctoring!

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Just allow AIs to write prescriptions. I’m sure it will be fine.

/s

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

9001 kg of bananas to be taken rectally

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm... would that be enough to cause radioactive effects if you someone condensed them enough to actually fit?

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You'd die of hypochloremia long before thatb

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago

now that's what i call a bananza

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago

Peeled or unpeeled?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jokes on Future Doctor because we're closing down the hospitals, cancelling the research grants, and taking all the sick people to jail for the crime of being unemployable.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One step closer to Idiocracy.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

idiocracy would be a step up from current murica

at least Camacho noticed and hired the smartest guy he found

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're so cooked.

Take 1 moment to imagine the enshitification of medicine.

We're gonna long for the days of sawbones and "you got ghosts in your blood. You should do cocaine about it"

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 hours ago

Good news. The MCAT, USMLE, and board exams are all done in a proctored environment with no electronic devices allowed. Hell, you cant even take a calculator in for the MCAT, so you better be cool with doing Arrhenius Equations by hand.

As far as doctors go you might be able to get through your premed degree with ChatGPT, but you're not going to get 500+ on your MCAT and you certainly aren't passing Step 1 of the USMLE.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Medicine has already been enshitified...

PE initiated take of provider groups in early 2010s.

Consolidation by PE and health insurance parasites is about complete.

Nurse and mid level providers are being pressured. Doctors are next on the chopping block.

Service quality is down across the board and they haven't even started squeezing in earnest.

You would get better service at 2005 McDonalds than at 2025 urgent care 🤡

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

"I'm sorry, but you have Fistobulimia. You may want to put your affairs in order."

"Oh my god, Doc! That's terrible. I came here for a runny nose. Are you sure?"

"Pretty sure. It lists... runny nose, tightness of jaw, numb toes, and a pain in your Scallambra region as typical symptoms."

"I don't have any of those other things and what the heck is a Scallambra?"

"You don't have those? Hmm, let me double-check."

(types)

"Good news! It's likely a type of Fornamic Pellarsy. Says 76.2387% recovery rate by leeching. System's already sent a referral."

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