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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days 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.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Med school isn’t easy bro

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

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Eh. I think it's hard to say. These days I think we can be expected to learn so much more than previous generations depending on the field. My psych undergrad emphasized a lot of neurobiology and other hard sciences with the humanities. I use chat to supplement recreational study on top of that, prompting for academic studies, etc., plus following experts around social media. I also saved as much material as I could between textbooks and other resources.

[–] Triti@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days 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 14 points 2 days 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 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago
[–] vocornflakes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago

You also need to realize school ratings does not always represent person's intelligence. Some straight As have turned into nutcases who scream about autism injections

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ds get degrees

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days 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 8 points 2 days 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 38 points 3 days 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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] Norrdec@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cant wait for vibedoctoring!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Vibe chef

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My doctor regularly Google's my symptoms while I'm sitting in the room so IDK if ChatGPT is worse.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It definitely is worse. Depending on which hits your doctor uses, there is legit medical knowledge on the internet, while chatgpt will just make stuff up.

I know a lot of young people see no difference between chatgpting something and googling it, and google has become really awful, but there is still a huge difference, since you can make google results better by using your brain and source criticism, while there is no such option with chatgpt.

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You can prompt or customize chat to give sources. I include prompts like "check for coherence, scientific accuracy" etc. too, depending on what I'm using it for.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days 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."

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

/s

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

9001 kg of bananas to be taken rectally

now that's what i call a bananza

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days 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.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One step closer to Idiocracy.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

idiocracy would be a step up from current murica

at least Camacho noticed and hired the smartest guy he found

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I really like Harvard's Nutrition Source for science-based nutrition info that's easy to understand.

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