I am a primary care doctor and I love using AI for learning - it is so easy to look up a question, like "What is the mechanism of action for x drug" or to find out why a disease will cause a certain symptom or sign. You can really accelerate your learning.
Where is the value in having a human doctor? I think people underestimate how difficult it is to get a good diagnosis - a lot of people are simply bad at communicating their internal state so you get stuff like "I feel funny, just kinda off, ya know?" so you really need to tease out what is going on with them just to get a list of symptoms to put together a diagnosis.
If you can get a good history then you can work on developing a differential diagnosis, which I think is where AI is probably going to help out a lot with in hard to difficult cases - most stuff is pretty easy to diagnose (like say 80% of presentations you will get are easy as hell) but for this stuff a midlevel PA or NP works fine too. For harder stuff an MD + AI will be helpful...the trick behind the MD being valuable is, at least in general medicine ...it really is the experience of getting thousands of reps in and seeing tons and tons of stuff so that you can simply *recognize* the problem, AI is helpful here too.
Treatment decisions is also a high value add from the MD - here anon:
>There's no judgement or weighing of options like you would have with most professional jobs. This guy is dead wrong because a good doctor will help tremendously with this, a true physician in the spirit of Osler knows you aren't treating a disease, you are treating a patient as well, and the branching paths and first and second order effects of treatment (side effects, adherence considerations, cost, feasibility, goals of care, etc) are where the art of medicine weighs in a lot and it helps to have a wise doctor.
>>76405015> not following the flowchart will get them sued, so why would they ever deviate?Patients voted for this