Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.
@duanegran In country where I was born (non-existent now for decades) and in country where I lived most of my life (and was lucky to run alive out of there), this is the norm. And with lack of belief in efficiency of healthy lifestyle and eating practices, there is a joke I would retell in modern way like this:"If nothing serious, search in Wikipedia, if something serious - be ready to die with dignity".
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PS: jokes aside, I just don't get it: so I have a question now: how to pass anatomy exam with ChatGPT?
Like this: you got a ticket with question like so: "Please point out the stapes bone of these 10 bones on table?".
I guess students would be pissed off very much if they found that there are questions in medicine which are demand anatomy knowledge....
@koteisaev
first of all and before we make the first incision : where is the 6th finger on the patients hand?
@duanegran
@koteisaev @duanegran Ooh, you'll enjoy this exchange that I had with Israeli med students in Bucharest, in 1982 👇
https://indieweb.social/@fgbjr/114516451442219930
@koteisaev @duanegran Then you use the same tool you use for checking if the mushrooms you picked are edible: Google Lens.

@duanegran

but don't forget; your future mechanic and future agriculturist are also using chatgpt to pass their exams, so you better start building your own bike and grow your own food 😅

@pmj @duanegran well it's always been the case that we let engineering students get a degree on a pass mark of 40%, even without LLM assistance, so watch out next time you cross a bridge or fly in a plane they might have later designed.
@duanegran Just don't crash with your bike 🤪
@duanegran Of course riding your bike in some parts of the UK is probably not s good health choice due to lack of infrastructure particularly if your councils aren’t too keen on cyclists. Just walking round some town is still a bit of a challenge to your health too traffic wise..
@Shephallmassive @duanegran Just carry some propane with you!

@duanegran

It's all about the Story of the Movie "Idiocracy"

@duanegran I wish this were satire (I teach med students).
@duanegran Your future doctor IS ChatGPT 🥲

@duanegran i'll ride a bike all the way to the chatgpt server farm. and once i get there, i'll

have a nice healthy picnic of course :3

@duanegran eating healthy and riding bike for everything shorter than 5km might be a wise decision anyway, totally independend from your future doctors education.
@Reinald @duanegran why for shorter than 5 km? I tend to choose riding my bike over walking the longer the trip. If I'm just gonna go to the corner store a block away, I walk.

@Shanmonster @duanegran different people have different needs. For most people about 5km is the threshold between "quick and easy ride" and "effort and sweating involved, and time invest".

If you like to walk - go ahead. If you like to ride longer than 5km - feel free. But please don't assume your preferences would be good for everybody.

@Reinald @duanegran I did not assume that. There is a significant problem with bike theft where I live, so I tend to use my bike for the trips which are too long for me to walk, that's all.
@Reinald @duanegran FWIW, when I was going to college, my choices for getting there were a 2-hour bus ride or a 50-minute bike ride.

@duanegran

The beauty of med school is that they test your knowledge fiercely and in detail. If you cannot accurately identify and describe every part of the body and its function you’re gonna fail. Diagnosis is another thing and could be a problem if they use ChatGPT, ie blatantly disregard everything they were taught in practice. I won’t worry as it will be the shit doctors using it and they would probably have killed me anyway.

@duanegran
Your future doctor will be ChatGPT.
@duanegran interesting how universities is in other countries place less emphasis on written exams and more emphasis on oral exams. If ChatGPT is to become a thing then we need to re-introduce oral examination to ensure the candidate actually knows what they’re talking about.

@duanegran
And he will be reading clinical trials reported by chatGPT too likely...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01463-8

Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split

Poll of 5,000 researchers finds contrasting views on when it’s acceptable to involve AI and what needs to be disclosed.

@duanegran

Counterpoint: You're in the deep dark Africa. Your nurse station is 150 km away via a "road" passable only by 4x4 that gets a Doctor visit once a month. But you have a cell signal.

...or you live in the US where patients shoot insurance executives in the head because they are denied care.

@duanegran and wearing a mask to avoid covid, bird flu and others !
@duanegran @ErickaSimone Your future doc is also being TAUGHT with ChatGPT.
@aarontempler @duanegran STOP AMPING UP THE HORROR STORY 🙃
@duanegran I remember seeing the medical school students when I was an undergrad. I swore then never to fall ill. (And that was, if it needs saying, long before chatGPT.)
@duanegran Surprise! I'm using chatgpt to treat myself.
@duanegran I'd rather med students be assisted by AI than undergo the memorization deathmarch and sleep deprivation of the present American system.
@duanegran Okay. I’m staying with my 70 year old doctor that doesn’t stay informed with newest information about my condition. Just great. We’re fuck either way.
@duanegran
So I outlive the existing doctors and have to be treated by those hacks when I'm old?
No thanks :-p
@duanegran
they are already using it to do a lot of their paperwork, including things directly relating to the patient and their ailments.

@duanegran
And current doctors refuse to mask to protect themselves or others, get re-infected with covid known to cause issues in brain tissue (simply said = IQ drops), and are crazy overworked as their peers and they themselves are constabtly sick while ER's worldwide are stacked up with more and more sick people.

Enshittification and eugenics are on full steam, so the GPT crowd fits right in to the pool of many morons. (:

(I am anti AI btw, just frustrated with healthcare)

@duanegran my future doctor "IS" ChatGPT! I'm sure it will agree on anything I say... So much easier...
@duanegran That’s good and I hope they use search engines and internet too - it will support them in all the practical things they need to be able to do - AI can’t do that . It will highlight and expose courses that don’t set proper OSCES
@byorgey I have this recurring fantasy that with enough data, a machine learning system would be able to look at me and say sonething like “Your depression is caused by insufficient salt intake on Tuesdays. Here are some salt tablets. Next!”

@mjd Machine learning systems can already do that!

...oh, wait, you mean you also want their diagnoses to be accurate?

@duanegran

Bold to assume that the future doctor is still human themselve.

Which makes staying as health cas possible even more important.

@duanegran If you use AI to learn any skill the chances are that a lot of your job will be replaced with AI.

@duanegran They learn to contextualise their knowledge in their residency when they actually use their inductive thinking skills in practice by shadowing senior doctors diagnose and treat real patients

Those written exams are useless

@duanegran your current doctor in a private practice with no IT guidance is likely already using ChatGPT or other LLMs for lots of things. Especially transcription, and almost certainly not vetting any of it.
@duanegran isn't meds school mostly rote memorization and lab work?
@duanegran yeah, But that doesn't matter, because with the help of the fascist techbros under Führer Trump, they will promote medical self-care with bleach and bloodletting. That will be the hot shit. 👍
When Medical AI Performs Better Than Human Doctors

We are at a tipping point when AI can perform better than human doctors in certain important tasks.

Forbes
@Gina @duanegran Love getting my medical research from forbes dot com.

@barubary @duanegran oh believe me I can find way worse sources 😂 https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/27510638/blood-test-bowel-stomach-pancreatic-cancer-ai/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

Doesn't take away the fact that we're realizing some amazing medical advancements thanks to AI.

AI can detect 3 of the deadliest cancers in minutes – from just one drop of dried blood...

AN AI-POWERED test could detect three major types of cancer using just a drop of dried blood, a study suggests. The tool could spot bowel, stomach and pancreatic cancers within minutes, Chinese res…

The Sun
@duanegran the error is thinking you need a doctor because you don't exercise or eat "unhealthy". That will just postpone some things... You'll get sick eventually.
@duanegran
I guess that's called "Vibe Doctoring"?

@duanegran
Also wear a good mask (N95/FFP2) = avoid contracting covid/bird flu/measels/or any other illnesses. Stay home when sick, have your family also mask up, test for covid, and fight for your rights for clean air everywhere.

Covid has caused millions of people to get Long Covid, post viral illnesses that range from cardiovascular issues to rarer ones like sudden baldness, blindness, deafness, and so, so much more.

Don't play health russian roulette. Current doctors don't care either.

@duanegran gotta get bike before the bike builder starts using chatgpt to build it