Ask HN: How many of you now use AI over doctors
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There is of course a limit, I can get blood pressure or cholesterol meds but not something like Adderal
I'm not sure what all you can do yourself, but doctors generally won't do unnecessary tests because there is a real cost-benefit analysis that must be done. If you order a test that you don't need, and it produces a false positive and leads to intervention that isn't needed, you could cause real harm to yourself. People have all sorts of irregularities in their bodies that don't cause health problems.
Even trained physicians are cautious about interpreting test results outside of a clinical context, and they need to be understood alongside medical history, symptoms, and risk factors.
Self-diagnosis can cause anxiety, unnecessary treatments, or delays in addressing the real problem because the data was misinterpreted. Medicine isn’t just about having data, it’s about knowing what not to do with it.
Also, an AI system isn't going to have a lot of training data for cases where the patient had nothing wrong - they don't tend to write case studies about your ordinary doctor visit.
This... irked me. So I went online and ordered it myself for a literal fraction of the price. In the year since I have taken my cholesterol and lipids from absolute garbage to perfection. My BP has been high for over a decade, its perfect now. I have lost 40 pounds of fat while maintaining muscle. Currently have a 6 pack and bench 405lbs and a little over 200lbs body weight. I am also on testosterone which I manage myself while also managing estrogen sides, etc.
Everything has become so much smoother and quicker since I just stepped away from the normal medical system and started doing it on my own. I look 20 years younger and my blood work is perfect. Recently got a colonoscopy (no anesthesia) as well and everything was good, need another in 7 - 10 years. Even the fact they force anesthesia on the majority of the patients irritated me. Its a 20 minute procedure that is uncomfortable at worst. Why force someone to lose an entire day, depend on a ride home, etc.
I just don't understand the point of the medical system for the Hacker News crowd. Now something like cancer of course, established medical system all the way, I am not advocating for recklessness.
Side note: I got a colonoscopy without anesthesia in the US. It's kinda funny you bring that up, because this was recent and they treated me like an alien for not wanting the drugs. But they allowed me to do it and it was fine.
The thing that irked me about the colonoscopy is that they initially refused, said the doctor didn't do it and when I said cool I'll find another doctor, they suddenly discovered he did. They passively aggressively try to force it on you.
Walk around the airport sometime and look at all the people enrolled in the standard medical system. I can promise you my labs and health are better than 99% of them. This is in no way an attack on those people. I don't know any of them and wish them long lives and happiness.
Intent of this thread though was not to cast stones, I was just really curious if others are doing the same. Appears so far that the answer is no. I think modern medicine is incredible, I just don't personally like the method in which its applied.
If you started on it recently, how do you know it’s going great? Giving yourself an illness from wrong medication doesn’t take a week.
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