When I finally blacked out and fractured my spine, first responders detected a lifelong cardiac arrhythmia in the back of an ambulance. Only with that knowledge have I been able to receive care and begin to heal emotionally from that abuse.
AI-assisted medicine will prevent many of these mistakes in the future.
I had to see the only available primary doctor to see anyone else, which automatically prompted medical releases that, even if unethical, would have still made it technically legal. If it was an emergency room trip, there were always the same 2-3 physicians there, so they were all fully aware of me from the first episodes. Same deal with labs when you've got only one or two options in town for anything, and they have your consent to release PHI since that's the only way to send results.
I hope that more founders build and innovate in the field to provide efficiencies throughout the whole system to lower costs and provide high quality care for everyone that needs it.
I'm a BIG supporter of using things like ChatGPT, google, and sci-hub to do your own medical research because the whole system where some physician diagnoses you based on an extremely limited amount of data collected in a haphazard manner after a few minutes of observation because he's experienced and smart or whatever is incredibly dumb. The way people hold it up as the ethical standard which we cannot deviate from because it would be too dangerous is utterly baffling to me. The status quo totally lacks ethics and mostly serves to line the pockets of a cartel of doctors with a monopoly on access to medication and treatment who often condescendingly think patients are simply too irrational to treat themselves without their help.
I legitimately cannot wait for this field to mature and medical self-help with AI assistance becomes the norm.