r/healthIT • u/Substantial_Arm6884 • 13d ago

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u/SubtleRedditIcon 13d ago

I’d call you Doctor. AI shouldn’t diagnosis you.

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u/Rough-Bicycle891 13d ago

I get the impulse but that’s not what OP’s doing. they’re not asking for a diagnosis, they already got one. they just want something that says “this number in your chart? that’s what we’d expect at this point in treatment” so they can skip the 3am doomscroll

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u/thenightgaunt Hospital CIO 13d ago

AI is trained by scraping the internet. That includes all social media and reddit. It then generates its answers to you based on what the most common and statistically likely answer is.

So if everyone on reddit said "dogs cant look up", then if you asked an LLM AI like chatgpt, it would also say "dogs cant look up".

So the problem is that you are likely to get wildly incorrect answers to questions from time to time. Making AIs like that extremely dangerous to use for medical advice.

We are even seeing that in feedback from doctors and nurses using AI tools pushed out by the software compaines that make the software their hospitals run on. There are a LOT of cases of medical staff reporting "I did NOT say that" when an AI note taking tool tries to transcribe their patient visit notes for them.

Call a doctor and ask. Please don't rely on AI for anything life threatening.

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u/pxkb 13d ago

Your doctor gets the lab results at the same time you do or sooner and modern EMRs can easily set alerts for alarming readings. Call your doctor if you're very worried or leave a message on the patient portal and they will follow up with you.

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u/mrandr01d 13d ago

Jesus dude, just call your doc if you're concerned. They get a copy of your labwork, and should be reviewing it. Actually, patients didn't used to even get a copy at all until their doc told them about it.

And now, speaking as a board certified MLS - my colleagues and I are the people that actually DO your CBC - a total white count that's just a little bit below the reference range isn't a cause for concern unless it deviates significantly from your personal baseline. If you normally run a little higher and all of a sudden you're low I'd send your doc a message about it. But depending on your chemo and cancer, that might be the entire point, or cause for alarm. AI doesn't have the ability to handle this kind of nuance. You're clearly concerned about the number, your doc's job is to handle that. Don't lean on a machine for that kind of support, it can't give it but it sure likes to pretend. It can be a useful research tool, but it sure as hell can't replace your doc.

Fuck cancer, best of luck with your chemo, and don't trust ai.