Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician.”
“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”
My experience with the medical industry… has not been great.
First, I went to a doctor because I couldn’t fall asleep at night… They sent me to get a sleep apnea test… I laid awake in the clinic all night. idk if your aware of this, but … you kind of need to be able to sleep for sleep apnea to be a concern.
Next I went in for depression and anxiety. They asked me 12 questions, and proceeded to prescribe me SSRIs and benzos. A month later I got into the psychiatrist and was bitched out for being late, told my issues were situational, and had my scripts cancelled.
Next I tried to get diagnosed for ADHD. I waited 5 months to get a psychiatrist who told me I couldn’t be ADHD because I held a job… And then proceeded to tell there’s no such thing as CPTSD, only PTSD…
Next I asked my doctor for another referral to get tested for ADHD, he asked me why I would want to, there’s nothing that can be done for it. He then gave me a form, and told me to fill it out, and that if I scored high we’d conclude I was ADHD.
Now I’ve been unemployed for 8 months, bordering on homelessness 😅 I found all my old report cards, and it’s just my teachers bitching that I’m smart, but fail, because I don’t apply myself, and shouldn’t continue taking the class…
I went to an employment agency the other money to try, and get some help pursuing my goals, and the worker spent 45 minutes explaining to me how they receive their funding, getting me to fill out a 16 page introduction package, never looked at my resume, and told me my certifications weren’t valued in my area…
In all honesty… AI has waaaay more ability to help me troubleshoot my issues than any medial professional I’ve dealt with. Is it perfect? No, but I actually have the ability to double and triple check, to get citations, to ask followup questions.
Sorry you’re dealing with that, and I’m glad AI gives you another tool.
This is the use case for today’s generation of AI: When the alternates are consistently terrible, AI can provide access to advice that ranges between terrible and mediocre. Sometimes it’s still an improvement.
I’ve been ejected from the system so many times it is not funny. Therapist’s approach seemed unproductive, he pressured me to end the treatment and filed that I was unwilling.
Medicine had serious side effects and I had to quit, back to the start.
Another go at that later.
Was prescribed a CBT treatment that was administered as home course with “guidance”. Because I had some serious problems, the tasks seemed shallow.
Possibly being kicked out of school having already facing fraudulent misconduct charges did not seem like a minor problems to recontextualize nor to me was a formal charge of misconduct something to live and let live with.
Therapist just wrote some platitudes and complimented me on progress as I was describing that by no means did this seem like a suitable treatment when an honest objective assessment of the facts was up to causing panic attacks.
CPTSD, well I’ve never had diagnosed but it may. AVPD was already on my file for most of this but clearly that doesn’t excuse me from always taking the initiative, or even initiative would be fine but basically every time there was the most minor hitch in treatment it’s up to me to start again.
But you know, eventually I was allowed a subsidy for therapy I couldn’t afford, so that was the end of that road I suppose.
The lack of resources to actually tackle problems produces shallow, inefficient, dangerously inappropriate treatments as is.
But that doesn’t seem to garner that much criticism.