thepotatodude

academia is struggling to realize this

Completely unusable for my usecase. Constant safety filters. Have not even been able to use it.

Organ segmentation with CNNs. Very disappointing.

60% is insanely high and absolutely not the performance of human mistake rate. What charts are you reading?

"Provider" and not "physician". Big tell.

Touch the salary and doctors strike. People will die if need be. Target somebody else for your reductions, not the people who have slaved away for years to treat you. We will not allow AI to accelerate the enshittification of healthcare and further solidify a two-tiered healthcare system.

You are the tech people, use AI to give me more time with patients and less administrative burden. I'd be able to see more patients and actually have time to look them in the eye. Increased productivity per doctor will help.

As someone knees deep in the training pipeline, this is simply not worth doing for anything less than current pay. This is hard as fuck.

As a current medical student, there's no way I'm living in a rural area for anything other than an insane paycheck. Even then, I'm out after a few years. Urbanization is the solution.

And physicians won't stand idly by as you replace their jobs. Enough pressure and the strikes begin. If that's what it will take for the value to be recognized, so be it. Big Tech isn't going to deliver us a healthcare utopia, but it will accelerate the enshittification of healthcare.

Try it.

We are yet to see major, nationwide physician strikes. If that is what it will take for society to realize the value provided, so be it. Without physicians, there is very little healing going on. You can't say the same for so many other roles.

Radiologists >>>> ortho bros

at reading scans. Not even close.

I think Havana Syndrome was caused by non-human technology. Whether they have reverse-engineered it or not is the question.

9% is nothing when you consider that these people provide the value. With no physicians, there is no healthcare.

Physician reimbursement is only ~9% of national healthcare expenditures.

I tell you this with certainty as a 3rd year medical student: If physician wages go down and tuition stays as is, no one will do this. Intrinsic motivation to help people evaporates as soon as you see how enshittified healthcare in the US has become.

I do agree that medical school is far too restrictive to get into (For MD schools at least). However, if you want to make medical school easier to get into: Where will all those students rotate at for their clinical years? There aren't enough spots in hospitals to jam students in.

Stop taking aim at the people that sacrifice so much to help you. Take aim at the real drivers of healthcare expenditures: administrative bloat.

It's really just not there yet. I've been in medical school for >3 years now and have been using the latest models with good prompting. They have gotten much better, but I still see misses that my classmates would easily catch. This is not acceptable in healthcare. It's certainly not getting 100% on all my assignments, which are a step below the complexity of real-world clinical practice.

Before medical school, I was not so sure of the quality of your average doc. Now having spent a year in clinical practice across various settings, I am extremely reassured. I can say with certainty that a US trained doctor is miles ahead of AI right now. The system sucks really bad though and forces physicians to churn patients, giving the impression that physicians don't pay attention/don't care/etc.

Salaries for healthcare workers make up only a small portion of expenditures. You do not want to avoid a trip to your GP for an AI system.

It'll be great at first while in development. But when profits need to be generated, seeing a specialist will get harder. There will be less wiggle room. I predict we will see more GP utilization.