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@CollinRugg
Doctor says he fears his profession will be overtaken by AI, says patients are coming in with questions that doctors can't answer.
"I am truly feeling that our days are numbered because of AI."
"That is because, at least my patients, are coming in with very, very difficult questions."
"They're using these AI chatbots to get a lot of base information that they would get from their doctor."
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@King4Queenn
Ahhhh! No wonder my doctors are always taking deep breath!
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@jakob_xn
Soon students will realize they don’t need teachers
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@BlaineLikeBrain
My heart goes out to well-meaning and educated doctors, but the system they work in is broken and set for massive disruption.
Who wins? You - the consumer, as traditionally expensive knowledge and procedures become lower cost with technology.
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@METALMADEME
I saved my own life back in 2018 with severe symptoms by researching everything I could about my condition. Got put through the medical wringer for thousands and seen 4 different doctors. The internet taught me that I was simply depleted on Magnesium, B12, Vitamin D & Calcium.
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@RMars80018
Will we still have to show up for our appointment, that took months to get, wait over an hour in waiting room, then wait another hour in a exam room, then see the doctor for 5 mins and wait another 30 mins to be processed out? Then find out our exorbitant insurance premiums don't kick in because our deductible is through the roof? Yeah it's a AI problem.
Not to mention every health care office. Hospital and Doctor etc forced masks on us during covid, while knowing they didn't do shyt...
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@117danas
Docs are still the gatekeepers for procedures and pills so they will be around to sign things a while still
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@klystron153
I just had an appointment with my nephrologist and told about a severe symptom I was having. He told me he doubted my kidneys had anything to with it. I had already been to Grok, ChatGPT and even the Mayo Clinic site about it, my symptom is one of the top 3 listed. If they lose their profession, it's on them.
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@barristerlawusa
I am a healthcare attorney and I work with doctors everyday telling them to use AI for charting. I had a physician who could not get a medication approved thru United Healthcare.
I know the patient so I wrote the note for the doc and gave him the ICD-10 codes. I know the doc too who was thrilled he help.
I asked my friend if he got his medication approved and the answer was yes, it flew through the system.
What program? Grok.
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@decoyposts
The more I learn about doctors, the less confidence I’ve had about them. This is the last 15 years too
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@DrElectronX
Either they use the tools or they will be replaced by the tools. If you wish to have a job, you have to provide value to those paying you.
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@radRounds
AI could actually help doctors too. But… some docs will likely be superseded by docs who use AI
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@alojoh
I think this is a good development: it forces everyone to up their game.
In my line of work I loved clients which allowed me to skip regurgitation of the basic stuff and focus on the value add.
If you are being challenged all the time you can maintain a learning curve for a lot longer compared to being bogged down by basic things all the time.
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@Jonatha77138770
From my experience most doctors are arrogant.
Even if you have medical knowledge or have already diagnosed yourself correctly and just need treatment. They get very threatened.
Even had one go out of his way to “prove me wrong” but ended up having to concede that I was right.
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@CharlesJCrypto
Truth is, a lot of doctors suck. I was dealing with a minor issue for over a year.
5 different doctors - no solution.
5 mins using Chat and I figured out my issue.
Went back to the doctor who then confirmed what I suspected.
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@NeoliberalShell
I fed Grok a couple symptoms from an extraordinarily rare disease I had as a kid but from the perspective of a parent noticing these symptoms before any tests or doctor visits. It asked one follow-up question about if the child had a very specific symptom and when I answered yes it gave a flawless diagnosis and told me all about the disease, how to test for it, how to treat it and where to go to get treatment.
Meanwhile it took doctors months to diagnose me and years to find the right treatment that Grok recommended right off the rip. Doctors are finished and honestly thank, God.
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@realdocspeaks
This was the same prediction in 1999 with the widespread use of the internet. This is old and fake news.
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@DogmaticTower
I've tested this myself. If you give detailed and specific medical information to a chatbot, it can and will scour publicly available information to yield a preliminary diagnosis.
Doctors have no excuse not to use it even just as a glorified search engine for Pubmed.
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@babybeginner
We get five minutes if we are lucky with a doctor who usually knows nothing and is simply pushing pharmaceuticals. Chatbots lie but at least they can give you some info to go check with your doctor.
In fact, Grok diagnosed my last two issues correctly.
Doctors are in trouble. So are lawyers. I know people using AI to write contracts.
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@ShrimpTeslaLong
Most doctors suck. They misdiagnose way too often. I‘d rather do my own research and then ask for medical inputs only when I can’t figure that out myself. NMA.
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@VediGopal
For starters, AI has a lot more time to answer patient questions than doctors. Furthermore, AI can look up the latest information. And AI does not need to fill up its calendar, or prescribe drugs recommended by big pharma.
On the downside, you need to be good at phrasing your questions. And understanding the answers.
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@ClaytonArnall
The problem is most doctors are generalists. They know a bit about a lot of things but not a ton about a specific thing. So it’s not hard to know more about a tiny niche topic than a doctor. They used to be able to get away with this, just like the church got away with it before people could read the Bible for themselves! But ain’t gonna cut it in today’s world. They need to innovate whisky or they’ll become obsolete. Maybe already too late.
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@Vox_Oculi
AI should never replace doctors, AI should be a powerful tool to supplement clinical knowledge-base and make better doctors.
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@PrestonBrownDC
Boo-Hoo
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@shaydpharms
diagnostics and the license to prescribe, even surgery —
“AI” is coming for it all
value remains in skillful authenticity mixed with an empathetic human interface
those who use these tools well will be most helpful to navigate the transition
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@SusanInspired
The last couple of doctor visits I had was me explaining my symptoms, and the doctor inputting it into a computer and getting an answer. That was $250 a visit.
Now I primarily use a practitioner who focuses on study of books from the early 1900s on healthcare, from before medicine was about taking pills.
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@solanapoet
dr should be able to answer any questions. dr just needs to get better at using ai to their advantage
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@jsnjarrell76
Duh because Dr's are basically a scam if they aren't specializing in something or doing surgery they are nothing more than used car salesman for Pharma who does what insurance companies tells them
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@MaleNurseRN
Not sure if this doctor is complaining about patients now being well informed and asking the right questions or the AI!
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@LorrieAnn25
I don't think they want their patients educated. I guess it's harder to take advantage of patients when they know what they're talking about.
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@alexandertyler
I love AI in medicine. I use it as a tool with patients and love discussing the differentials with them as well as coming up with a treatment plan they are comfortable with. It’s called shared decision making. This tech is more revolutionary than the internet IMHO. I don’t worry about being replaced, I embrace it and think of it as being enhanced!!!





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@PsychCaptainX
I'm a doctor and I love when my patients come in with an idea of what they have. If I can't explain to a patient why or why not they have a certain condition, I don't deserve to be a doctor. I did 12 years of education and training after high school. They didn't.
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@jaecieh
That’s because a lot of doctors aren’t passionate about their work so they stopped learning.
They’re in it for money.
A lot are still operating under the knowledge of old studies even tho there is new info out there now.
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@dustinthedad
It will be considered below standard of care for doctors to not use AI in a few years
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@mjgranger1
This means that doctors should be using AI. Why are they so afraid. IBM proved years ago that AI could out diagnose human doctors. Isn’t that better? Can’t they work together?
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@mattpavelle
Started for us about 8 months ago when our in-house doctors first started getting patients handed-off from our medical AI. We built a tool to let our doctors discuss the patient with our AI. We're releasing that to the world in a few weeks. Doctors won't be taken over, they'll be enhanced, focusing less on gathering data and more on CARING for patients. @DoctronicAI
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@StevePhillipsMD
One thing is certain: The medical field will be almost unrecognizable in 25 years. The easy part to predict is that MD’s will be far fewer, largely replaced by AI. And that technological discoveries will dwarf that of the past 50 years. But how we use that inevitable explosion of technology can go either amazingly well or horribly wrong.
If, over the next 25 years we choose to have heads of our federal agencies with a similar purpose & moral compass as those we have now, we could be on the precipice of a second Golden Age in medicine. In time, the long corrupted state of American healthcare could be saved.
But if we were to return to the leadership style made infamous during the pandemic, rife with manipulation through fear & coercion, hallmarked by the censoring of free speech & scientific debate, then the practice of medicine is doomed.
Doctors will have no freedom to practice. They will be nothing more than clerks, relegated to following guidelines to the letter, guidelines written under the influence of gov’t-industry collusion.
The choice is ours. Either we learn how to spot sociopathic politicians & recognize the mainstream media propaganda machine, or we lose it all.
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