Re:AI Tool Found My Autoimmune Disease After $100k and 30 Ho...
by Aurornis on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:29PM
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> I don't see the harm in something like this.
Incorrect self diagnosis is a big problem for doctors. Patients will show up convinced they have one condition and reject their doctors’ attempts to explore other explanations.
It’s a big problem right now with TikTok self diagnoses. People view a lot of TikToks and think they know better than their doctor for themselves or, worse, their kids.
The easiest example is when people decide they have a bacterial infection when they really have a common cold. They will shop around until they find a doctor who is a pushover and will prescribe antibiotics on demand. This is a big problem right now with antibiotic overprescription.
The problem with this specific post, though, is that it’s misleading. The author tries to present this tool as if it did a better job than $100K of medical testing and 5 years of doctors, but when you read the details it’s clear that the results from all of those doctors and medical testing were put into the tool.
Many of the comments here and on Reddit are missing this key point: The tool was mirroring the diagnosis from the doctors because it was given the medical records from those doctors, not because it was diagnosing the symptoms from a clean slate.
Incorrect self diagnosis is a big problem for doctors. Patients will show up convinced they have one condition and reject their doctors’ attempts to explore other explanations.
It’s a big problem right now with TikTok self diagnoses. People view a lot of TikToks and think they know better than their doctor for themselves or, worse, their kids.
The easiest example is when people decide they have a bacterial infection when they really have a common cold. They will shop around until they find a doctor who is a pushover and will prescribe antibiotics on demand. This is a big problem right now with antibiotic overprescription.
The problem with this specific post, though, is that it’s misleading. The author tries to present this tool as if it did a better job than $100K of medical testing and 5 years of doctors, but when you read the details it’s clear that the results from all of those doctors and medical testing were put into the tool.
Many of the comments here and on Reddit are missing this key point: The tool was mirroring the diagnosis from the doctors because it was given the medical records from those doctors, not because it was diagnosing the symptoms from a clean slate.