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0 pointsriku_iki1y ago0 comments

> Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works.

Its not doctors who do testing.

I was several times in situation, when doctor with early ChatGPT confidence prescribed some treatment, and I googled actual NIH study at home and seen very different conclusions to what doctor told me.

Doctors can confidently hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable.

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thfuran1y ago· 2 in thread

Doctors (in the US) tend to pay a whole lot for insurance because they can be sued for huge amounts of money when they screw up. Being confidently wrong and deviating from the standard of care by dismissing things or mistreating them is exactly the sort of thing that loses them malpractice cases.

Of course an after the fact payout may not be able to make you whole.

riku_ikiOP1y ago

> Being confidently wrong and deviating from the standard of care by dismissing things or mistreating them is exactly the sort of thing that loses them malpractice cases.

its theoretical assumption, but looking at my personal experience, it doesn't look like doctors feel much pressure to do some deep research, and they just give some semi-generic advises which could contradict actual studies.

thfuran1y ago

The standard of care is more conservative than doing whatever you can find a study saying might help, and being a bit behind of the latest research is very different from "hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable".

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