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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have a link but a couple months ago they had an interview on NPR (A1 maybe?) on this issue. The result was that AI was better for routine issues but that human physicians were much better on detecting cases that fell outside the routine.[/quote]

This is ALREADY one of my biggest frustrations with human physicians - they are trained to think "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras," and will make patients suffer catastrophic issues to prove it's not horses. So anything that reinforces that bias further could be dangerous.

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I wonder if AI would have the same bias against a zebra diagnosis.

I was recently in the ER with weird to me symptoms. The blood tests had three results flagged and the ER doctor zeroed into one and gave me a relatively common, not great, diagnosis. I followed up two weeks later with my GP, who focused in on the other two flagged results, and ordered a common routine test that the ER had not done. That test confirmed a totally different, less bad (though still not great), diagnosis whose incidence is quite rare--1 to 2 per 100,000 people.

If the ER doctor had used AI, would he have ordered the additional routine (and cheap) test that would have confirmed the rare condition before he came to a conclusion on the diagnosis? I he had, I could have gone directly to the right specialist instead of having four appointments (including for tests) with a specialist I don't really need to see.[/quote]

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