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The way med school works by definition is that it filters for very conformant hard working individuals and then fills them up with the most common symptoms, diseases and treatments and turns them into human dictionaries. There are of course many exceptions to that rule, but if you look at medical textbooks that is the structure most of them follow. A human competing on who's the best dictionary is a terrible way to solve this problem although it might have historically been helpful.

I recently had a retinal detachment, not entirely sure why, no doctor can tell me anything useful besides you must have been stressed, but I got it lasered despite my better judgement, because I knew fixating something in the eye somewhat arbitrarily must cause problems, so it left me with blurriness and aniseikonia(a condition with one eye seeing things smaller).

I don't need an LLM for that, just the right google queries do the trick. This is by far not the only issue I have with doctors, but my experience with doctors has been vastly different between exceptional doctors and people with absolutely no interest into any kind of in depth root cause analysis, but the vast majority of them has been in the latter category.

parent rjzzleep 2 years ago

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