For example I order my own blood work. I decide what labs to order and interpret the results via chatGPT / Grok, etc. I then order medications via online pharmacies. Recently started taking High blood pressure medication all worked out with Ai and the results have been great.
I still use doctors for things I cannot such as colonoscopy, etc but for everything else I use Ai.
I just got frustrated at having to wait 6 - 8 weeks to see a doctor, get labs and then wait another 6 - 8 weeks to see them to review the labs when I can get the entire thing resolved myself in a week.
Anyone else do the same?
I'm not sure what all you can do yourself, but doctors generally won't do unnecessary tests because there is a real cost-benefit analysis that must be done. If you order a test that you don't need, and it produces a false positive and leads to intervention that isn't needed, you could cause real harm to yourself. People have all sorts of irregularities in their bodies that don't cause health problems.
Even trained physicians are cautious about interpreting test results outside of a clinical context, and they need to be understood alongside medical history, symptoms, and risk factors.
Self-diagnosis can cause anxiety, unnecessary treatments, or delays in addressing the real problem because the data was misinterpreted. Medicine isn’t just about having data, it’s about knowing what not to do with it.
Also, an AI system isn't going to have a lot of training data for cases where the patient had nothing wrong - they don't tend to write case studies about your ordinary doctor visit.
If you started on it recently, how do you know it’s going great? Giving yourself an illness from wrong medication doesn’t take a week.
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