General Medical issues thread

[Pushka]

It's just dumb and serves no purpose.
I'd rather a patient come for review having seen their results and subsequently having checked Dr google because they then come with questions.

One of these days (soon) there will be an AI Agent trained to interpret results and gives patients a list of questions to ask their Dr. Heck you could even train your own personal AI Agent/assistant to do that.

ChatGPT already does this. I have a list of questions from the results that are open and next week will finalise it when unlocked. The GP also uses Chat during the appointment. She does ask first but I’m totally onboard.

 

[VPS]

Unfortunately, the old days of family doctors are gone. These days, IME, while many GPs are good, many these days seem less so. Clinics are run for profits and doctors are under the pump. 15 min consultation but GP hasn’t read your charts or reports and analyse before you arrive (and many times hasn’t bothered to follow up reports from specialists you have been referred to) so means in essence maybe 13 minutes consultation and shallow discussion of symptoms, often leading to a long consultation and a $220 fee. If you can educate yourself (from good sources, nor CHATGPT only) in my opinion you can have a more productive discussion with the GP.

IMHO While I dislike AI Slop, good implementation of AI in medical diagnoses will be a good thing for both patient and medical practitioners. AI is already proving useful in analysis of various scans etc which alert the specialist to potential issues that may have been missed.

I just changed from a corporate to a private owned and much happier.

Each of the doctors made a decision that they will have 2 or 3 free appointments each day that are only bookable on the day.

My previous clinic I could rarely get to see my preferred GP for six weeks

 

[mrsterryn]

We go to a private doctors clinic which has probably twenty GPS , a couple of nurses , counsellors etc.

No bulk billing however if we go through the day it is $10 less . Though we would happily pay the standard rate. We can usually see our GP within a day or so , he is accessible for extra scripts , we can do zoom calls . He really does know our medical histories .

The service difference between this pay one (so to speak ) to the bulk billing one just up the road from us is massive