Raw LLM Responses

I’m a physician. On a long enough timeline, I am sure I will be replaced. What I always find humorous about that though is just how much of medicine is art and how that is a lot harder to replicate. I’m not referring to bedside manner. I’m not suggesting that evidence based medicine is not the cornerstone of practice. You could teach a monkey to do 80-90% of my job, but it’s the 10-20% where you deviate from evidence based practice or algorithms based on a combination of historical and clinical data that translates into risk assessment. AI is still a long ways away from that. When it comes to fields like radiology and even heme/onc AI has really excelled. When it comes to general clinical medicine there is still a long way to go because developing a treatment plan and follow up is a lot more complicated. The other thing I always find humorous is how excited patients seem for AI to take over healthcare. While there is no doubt obvious upsides, what patients really fail to grasp is how often an AI physician will tell them to go home and do nothing for their cold or muscle sprain. In the US where healthcare has transformed into “the patient is always right” customer service mess that it has become, patients are going to be very disappointed when the genius AI tells them they won’t be getting antibiotics and narcotics based on evidence based practice and whatever diagnostic skills it possesses. This actually a good thing for community and population health. I just think it will be hilarious when someone doesn’t get their Zpak for their cold and has no human to blame.