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A talk with my neighbor, a nurse, made me question AI in medicine
She described a new patient intake system that uses AI to guess diagnoses before a doctor even sees the chart. She said, 'It's not just a tool, it's setting a direction.' That hit different because it framed the innovation as a starting point, not just an aid. Has anyone else seen AI subtly steer decisions in their field?
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spencerm461mo ago
But it's not just a form like @felixramirez says. That first guess frames the whole problem in the doctor's mind, and you can't unsee it. It changes the starting point, which changes where you end up.
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oscarb771mo ago
Oh perfect, a computer gets first guess on my health before a human does. Next they'll have the parking meter diagnose my rash while I'm feeding it quarters. Sure, the doctor can ignore it, but you know that guess is gonna be staring them right in the face, all official-looking on the screen. It's like when your GPS insists you turn into a lake, you know it's wrong, but part of you still wonders.
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felixramirez1mo ago
People have been using checklists and intake forms to steer doctors for decades. Calling it AI just makes it sound scarier. It's still just a form, and a doctor can ignore it. The real problem is if hospitals start punishing doctors for not following the computer's guess.
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