To be fair, this is not how doctors want to practice medicine.
Re:Production AI systems are hard
by BiteCode_dev on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:03PM
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You really have to double check everything yourself, which sucks if you are weaken.
I was at the hospital last week for a pretty bad condition and my IV was badly set. I told the nurse to change it for 4 days, they kept refusing, trying to adjust it.
Eventually I just told the doctor what was happening, and he said "oh, that's why your readings were messed up, I was wondering why I had to change your drug dose every day".
They changed my IV in the next hours, and my conditions improved overnight.
I discussed that with some doctor and nurse friends, and they all told me to never, ever trust a health practitioner you don't know very well. You need to be very proactive in your treatment, because they are exhausted, have many people to treat in a row and are only humans.
This is just going to be another case of patients needing to take ownership of their own care. It’s no longer “tell the doc your symptoms and they’ll figure out what’s wrong”, it’s now “tell the doc what you think you have and if they interrupt you and brush it off, go to another doc” until someone agrees with your diagnosis and gets you the referral or test or prescription that you need. For those who know what I’m talking about, I’m sorry. For those who don’t- you’ll learn this lesson someday.