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abhisuri97 commented on Why doctors hate their computers (2018)   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob
Scoundreller · a month ago
> On more than one occasion I have just had my doctor literally Google my symptoms.

There have been times I wished they would have done that.

I expect them to be resourceful rather than know everything off the top of their head.

abhisuri97 · a month ago
Med student here: oftentimes the attendings who are googling are usually doing it because the patient's symptoms don't fit with the most common illness "scripts" we develop in our mind and have ready for the 90% of patients who walk in the door. The google is a quick sanity check to see if these symptoms are within the range of "normal" for the most likely differential diagnoses (i.e. list of most likely diagnoses based on the patient's presentation).

That or those symptoms are exceptionally vague or uncommon enough that they warrant a quick refresher on google for leads on additional questions we should ask of patients (the most common offender here is rashes/skin lesions imo since they can literally be a manifestation of super simple "oh you just changed your shampoo" to "you have a rare autoimmune condition"...asking a comprehensive history from patients can help determine what tests to order).

abhisuri97 commented on Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex   substack.com/home/post/p-... · Posted by u/MedadNewman
abhisuri97 · 7 months ago
I'm honestly surprised it managed to output hex and still be sensible. what part of the training corpus even has long form hex values that isn't just machine code?
abhisuri97 commented on SimpleQA   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
websap · 10 months ago
Are they going to make the benchmark available so other LLMs can be compared?
abhisuri97 commented on Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?   bessstillman.substack.com... · Posted by u/jseliger
andai · a year ago
I think part of this is about staying up to date. I'm not sure if there's a legal requirement for ongoing training? But I've had the experience of going to an older physician and being told my theory is impossible, based on a hypothesis that was disproven in the early 1970s (incidentally, right after the physician graduated).
abhisuri97 · a year ago
Yes. Doctors in the US have to get a certain amount of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits (usually done by attending conferences and lectures).
abhisuri97 commented on Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer   theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/cowboysauce
pedalpete · a year ago
Can you elaborate on the weight gain? I'm curious why that is a downside of the Trikafta? You say with CF the pancreas is blocked, so why did the weight come as a side-effect of the drug, and not with the disease initially?
abhisuri97 · a year ago
Med student here. My guess is the following: So with CF your pancreas can’t secrete many of the enzymes that are necessary to actually digest food. You can take medications to help with that digestion, but regardless, you aren’t actually getting all the calories in your food with CF because it isn’t making its way into your body (notably patients with CF have steatorrhea which is fat in their stool because they can’t absorb a lot of fat from their foods like a non-CF patient). The med helps the pancreas recover some of its ability to secrete digestive enzymes and so patients can now eat and get more from their food. The issue is that there needs to be a recalibration in terms of how much patients are eating. Previously a 2000 calorie diet may not have gotten them so far because they didn’t absorb much of it, but now they’re absorbing a lot more of it. Plus increased work of breathing with CF expends more calories compared to a non-CF patient (and patients on this drug).
abhisuri97 commented on Show HN: Generate quiz questions using AI   quizgecko.com/... · Posted by u/jwblackwell
peytoncasper · 3 years ago
This is a really awesome application of GPT-3. You should definitely consider turning this into a service and adding the ability to generate Anki decks or flash cards from summary notes.

That coupled with the quizzing capability could be huge for students in medical school for example.

abhisuri97 · 3 years ago
as a med student, i'd 100% pay for this service if it can take my in house lecture ppts as input
abhisuri97 commented on Stable Diffusion is a big deal   simonwillison.net/2022/Au... · Posted by u/simonw
abhisuri97 · 3 years ago
I’m more trying to see what the utility of stable diffusion (or just the text to image problem) in the long term. Right now people can play around with making weird art pieces and maybe it will be integrated into design tools...but then what?

Eg with other AI problems out there I can see a potential application to medicine, self driving cars etc, but I just don’t see what the bigger goal of this is going to be.

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