Pelvic Exams

[thegenius]

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@thegenius I don’t have to just rely at looking at people anymore. They can swab themselves!

(1) In seriousness though, I wonder how improved diagnostic testing coupled with AI is going to obviate the need for a physician to be involved at times. Not that I ever want to be involved with this area of medicine.

Yea I have patients swab themselves now anyway. Our ER is so full almost all the time, that they can wait 3-4 hours to get a bed for me to swab, or they can go right now to the bathroom and can swab themselves.

(1) For simple stuff, like urgent care issues, it will probably make a dent and maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of patients won't go to Urgent Care anymore. Especially if it's just an issue of getting an Rx. ER traffic will go down a little but not much.

AI can't help old people who are weak, or all people who can't adult and need society to take care of them. That's probably 80% of our "clientele".