The other day I saw the most disturbing thing go by in a parenting group on Facebook.
A woman posted seeking doctor and even hospital referrals for a friend who is concerned about weird physiological and physical symptoms being exhibited by their adult child and her friend wasn’t on Facebook. For expediency, because the random things that this young adult is facing, the woman posting posted some of the “what happeneds” as a way to explain ER visits.
Well the comments went from Doctor Google to Doctor Grok at the ChatGPT minute clinic. It was literally astounding. You see instead of saying try certain hospitals for ERs and specialists, these people put what the woman wrote into AI and were cutting and pasting AI diagnoses!
It was literally like watching a car crash unfold. All I kept thinking was these were women with children, and kids get sick, so are they no longer taking kids to the doctor but using artificial intelligence to diagnose their kids?
That totally freaked me out because of the sheer stupidity of it. They ran a stranger’s symptoms through AI, which along with everything else demonstrated a complete and utter lack and disregard for what was actually asked.
Look I know it’s ridiculously hard sometimes because of this country’s messy healthcare system to get in front of a specialist, but there is absolutely no substitute for real medical professionals getting eyes on a patient and performing necessary tests, scans, bloodwork. There is no substitute for speaking face to face with someone who is trained in a particular medical specialty.
Because of our cumbersome healthcare system it is often the case that we are left with only the option of going through an ER to get to specialists. That is definitely not fun, I get it, but you can’t replicate a human doctor via AI nor should you.
It’s a pain in the ass dealing with healthcare systems. I totally concur with that statement as I’ve had to deal with it far too often in the past few years, but I’m still not going to go to some AI platform on my phone to seek medical advice and no one should do it and the fact that people consider doing it with their kids is crazy.
I think this is just another example of the laziness and lack of intellectual curiosity in people today.
People have lost their common sense. I guess it’s too much effort?