by tsoukase 8 hours ago
Medical opinion will remain one of the last frontiers of LLMs. There so many critical factors that are inappropriate for them. They cannot perform a clinical exam, they have to collect the needed exams and most importantly a life might be at stake (OK, you cannot die from a shoulder problem but you can become handicapped forever).
All that said, as a doctor I am totally open and even happy when a patient refers they took advice from AI. I explain the holes of their reasoning and integrate it with mine. It helps rather than hurts the patient-doctor connection.
Do you think you would ever use LLMs in tandem in your practice to help diagnose and treat?
I often ask, usually Gemini, at a medium abstraction level (not general What the diagnosis is, neither specific like What this high serum Ca means). The answers are correct but not enough and ready for consumption without doctor guidance.
A cardiologist friend goes in deep discussions with a specialised model and he is amazed.
I wish you were my doctor!