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This doesn't seem like nothing new? I remember a talk about this being done some 12+ years ago. Just without the AI label to generate hype.
But healthcare is a rather conservative industry (for good reason) so it has taken a while to build confidence in the technology and get regulatory approval.
Anecdotally, when I had a potential skin cancer checked at a London hospital they were completely ill-prepared. When I came back to Australia, it was checked and immediately removed as an obvious melanoma. Perhaps the idea of Comparative Advantage also applies to healthcare between countries with natural variances to types of disease?
My neighbour who is a doctor moved to another city because that's where he managed to get a spot to train for his field.
It appears that he's learning much more there than he would back home because in this country some procedures are rare outside of his current location.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do all cases in the UK start with a GP? No ability to go straight to a dermatologist? And are all dermatologists based out of hospitals? In the US, we'd just go straight to a dermatologist, who would either remove it on the spot, or for a location that's liable to scar badly, refer to a specialist surgeon. For somebody fair skinned with lots of sun damage like myself, it's an annual "ritual".
Most UK health stuff starts with a GP appointment. Even for private health care, you usually see a GP first (could be a private GP or NHS, in-person or video) and they then refer you to the next thing whatever that may be. ( N.B. that a NHS GP can give you a referral that you use for private treatment) There are some things you can just straight up book an appointment for yourself without a referral from a GP, but 95…
Sample of one, but every spot (5+ over the past decade) I’ve asked my dermatologist about has resulted in a biopsy and of those several were cancer.
Anecdotally, when I had a potential skin cancer checked at a London hospital they were completely ill-prepared. When I came back to Australia, it was checked and immediately removed as an obvious melanoma. Perhaps the idea of Comparative Advantage also applies to healthcare between countries with natural variances to types of disease?
At most you had to deal with a stitch or two but often only a bandaid. Nowadays the hydrocolloid bandages seem magic.
This doesn't seem like nothing new? I remember a talk about this being done some 12+ years ago. Just without the AI label to generate hype.
99% accuracy in diagnosing benign case This is meaningless. The only thing that matters in this kind of application is false negative rate at some acceptable false positive rate. I assume whoever is working on this knows that, so this is mostly a criticism of the article. That said, this is a horrible use of AI.
It’s really all about the protocol. AI tends to spot things that doctors don’t, and vice versa. Dermatology is also an area being pillaged by private equity and access is poor for many people. I lost my wife to melanoma. She noticed a lesion within days of it appearing, and a doctor saw it within 48 hours and felt it was benign. My wife didn’t accept it and had a plastic surgeon remove it and biopsy, then had a margi…
Anecdotally, when I had a potential skin cancer checked at a London hospital they were completely ill-prepared. When I came back to Australia, it was checked and immediately removed as an obvious melanoma. Perhaps the idea of Comparative Advantage also applies to healthcare between countries with natural variances to types of disease?
99% accuracy in diagnosing benign case This is meaningless. The only thing that matters in this kind of application is false negative rate at some acceptable false positive rate. I assume whoever is working on this knows that, so this is mostly a criticism of the article. That said, this is a horrible use of AI.
Not really. It allows you to order your cases from most-likely to least-likely, and get human eyeballs on the most-likely cases first.
Anecdotally, when I had a potential skin cancer checked at a London hospital they were completely ill-prepared. When I came back to Australia, it was checked and immediately removed as an obvious melanoma. Perhaps the idea of Comparative Advantage also applies to healthcare between countries with natural variances to types of disease?
Sadly, a friend of mine died from this type of problem. He traveled from Ghana to Jordan and fell ill in Jordan, the Jordanian doctors didn't diagnose it as malaria in time to save him because Jordan doesn't have malaria. I'm sure it would have been obvious to a Ghanaian doctor.
99% accuracy in diagnosing benign case This is meaningless. The only thing that matters in this kind of application is false negative rate at some acceptable false positive rate. I assume whoever is working on this knows that, so this is mostly a criticism of the article. That said, this is a horrible use of AI.
- this can prioritize urgent patients for the severely overworked doctors
- medical error is a leading cause of death, this serves as a second-opinion (97% true-positive rate and 79% true-negative rate)
- it can be used as evidence by a nurse or physician advocating for a patient's treatment