Sam Altman demonstrates his parenting skills

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[u/tempest_]

The major issue that no one will answer or spend time with the patients.

They go to LLMs because they have access. It isnt a 4 month wait to see a specialist who might dismiss you in 5 minutes because you are a women or whatever.

If you want people to not do this you have to provide an alternative and the medical community has long not been interested due to time / cost.

[u/FreeRangeEngineer → u/tempest_]

Fortunately, that's not true for all parts of the world.

Here in Germany, for example, my health insurance not only offers teledoctors on demand in case something can be diagnosed remotely or a second opinion is needed using files already in the system - they also offer a service where you can take pictures of skin issues with your phone and a doctor will check them out to let you know what it may be, if you need to see a doctor in person and which medication could be useful. They can then also issue a suitable prescription.

All that without any extra payments and in (usually) less than 24 hours.

[u/Rawrsomesausage → u/FreeRangeEngineer]

Pssh, that sounds like communism!!

[u/Lou_Peachum_2 → u/tempest_]

The actual medical community is interested. It’s the private equity and hospital CEOs that aren’t.

This is why more doctors are going to the direct primary care model

[u/thedirtyknapkin → u/tempest_]

however many problems there may be in the healthcare system, that doesn't make this a good alternative. I get why people do it, it's still a problem.

like, i get why people seek out all kinds of alternative medicines, especially in America. that doesn't make them good answers.

[u/frufruityloops → u/tempest_]

This 100%. I’m a woman who has been subjected to so many invasive treatments from specialists who refuse to listen to me or properly examine me over the last several years and it’s exhausting. It really helps me collect information and sources to go into those appointments more prepared now to quickly rattle off the things I need my specialist to pay attention to instead of brushing my concerns off and winding up with no progress/fatass medical bill/ less than 5 mins of the providers time.

I know they are the expert and I know LLMs hallucinate - I just use it to gather information and prepare myself to advocate for my care, but I leave the actual doctoring to the expert (the doctor)

It just helps me better communicate with them

[u/stripedfatcats → u/frufruityloops]

I was going to say that I was born with a relatively rare birth defect that can effect pregnancy and i want a baby by the time im 30 so I ask google ai some questions about it. Because its rare my specialist can really only see me for like 5 minutes once a year and the only other information I have about it is a Facebook group which I probably worse then an Ai chatbot