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Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users

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Re: Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users

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Post by jdthedisciple »

an0malous wrote: post #31

I tried posting an Ask HN about my experience using Claude and ChatGPT for medical advice, but it didn't get enough upvotes for any responses. Maybe this is a good place to repost (the part relevant to medical treatment is at the end): Question: Why don't Claude or ChatGPT get message timestamps? Go to any conversation you’ve had with Claude or ChatGPT in their chat apps and ask them what time they sent their last me…

I too have been wondering about the missing timestamps, and sometimes feel like it would be really useful. My best guess is fear of context pollution, but no idea...

Re: Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users

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Post by BadBadJellyBean »

matwood wrote: post #50
BadBadJellyBean wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know of someone who had a red bump on their arm and asked ChatGPT if that was a problem and if they should see a doctor. It said no so they left it. Turns out it was a tick and they now have lyme disease.

I feel like I'm reading comments on LLMs writing code where they romanticize that programmers were perfect before LLMs. Doctors are not infallible. I know plenty of them and they absolutely tell me who and who not to go to. The old joke, what do you call the person who graduated last in their class at med school? Doctor. Lyme disease in particular has all sorts of issues with diagnosis - from real doctors! https://pm…

Possibly but a big red bump might have caused another reaction from a real doctor.

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Post by jeffybefffy519 »

powerpcmac wrote: post #36
jeffybefffy519 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Theres a good use case in AI for patients to chat to tho, if i could transfer all of the context of a conversation I had with a AI bot to my Dr before a appointment it would most likely improve outcomes because I have been much more verbose and descriptive to the AI bot. You basically want an AI chat bot for patient history...

45% of medical note taking software hallucinated details about patients. This is not a good application for AI. https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/specialreports/specialr...

I dont want it to take notes tho, i have already talked to it. It just needs to ask questions back so a dr can read the convo.

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Post by rchaud »

From this[0]

> A lawsuit filed by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old pastor from Florida, claimed ChatGPT told him not to seek medical help after repeatedly asking about symptoms in the build-up to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism.

in the same article:

> OpenAI's Drew Pusateri told the BBC's US news partner CBS News that "ChatGPT is not a doctor and should never be used as a substitute for medical care, diagnosis or treatment".

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwylp3nxp5yo

Re: Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users

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Post by rchaud »

julienchastang wrote: post #49
skilled wrote: post #8

I think doctors are going to lose their minds or at the very least get extremely agitated/frustrated as patients increasingly use AI tools to do self-research for symptoms and diagnosis. And I know this because I am guilty of this myself and recently had a dentist tell me to not do that. And this applies to so many health workers, your GP as well as your physical therapist, etc. Recently I had Claude analyze an MRI o…

I don’t have the reference on my fingertips, but patients who are involved in their own healthcare have better outcomes. Moreover, for those of us (and there are many of us) who have gotten increasingly frustrated with US healthcare (e.g., long waits, short visits where you never really get a chance to discuss the health issue, difficulty getting appropriate tests), AI is looking like an increasingly attractive optio…

"Involved in their own healthcare" tends to mean getting second opinions, reading medical articles, joining a support group and talking to other patients.

Pretty soon it will mean "I looked it up on ChatGPT and it says I don't need surgery".

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