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New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors

13 points njx 1 hour ago 5 comments

NotGMan 1 hour ago | parent

Often doctors miss rare diseases and gaslight patients that they don't have them.

AI is great for this since it has encyclopedic knowledge.

keybrd-intrrpt 1 hour ago | parent

The diseases don't even have to be rare:

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9802334/

* https://time.com/6074224/gender-medicine-history/

mcbuilder 50 minutes ago | parent

I wonder if any doctors feel depressed about losing "creativity", or are instead yeah I can help diagnose and cure more people.

tejinderss 18 minutes ago | parent

Here in the UK, they will try their hardest to not refer to the consultant, will do the basic blood tests and tell you that you are all right, take pain killers or anti allergy medicine. Its such a terrible system

opo 11 minutes ago | parent

Way back in 1979, the MYCIN system was shown to be better at diagnosing than Doctors:

>...Eight independent evaluators with special expertise in the management of meningitis compared MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine human prescribers for ten test cases of meningitis. MYCIN received an acceptability rating of 65% by the evaluators; the corresponding ratings for acceptability of the regimen prescribed by the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5%. The system never failed to cover a treatable pathogen while demonstrating efficiency in minimizing the number of antimicrobials prescribed.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/480542/