# I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients | Medium

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## What Jamie wrote

Interesting assessment by an ER doctor having ChatGPT trying to diagnose. It did better than expected, but missed outliers.

> In short, ChatGPT worked pretty well as a diagnostic tool when I fed it perfect information and the patient had a classic presentation.

This is pretty wild since it would presume that for some large number of cases it could do a "good enough" job. 

> The art of medicine is extracting all the necessary information required to create the right narrative.

The article goes on to highlight ways that it can add value. There isn't a mention though that the patient might actually be **more open and truthful** with an AI than with the human doctor. When we look at what people type into Google, they seem to share things that they may be otherwise embarrassed to share. An AI Doctor might better at getting all the right information.

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- [I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients. | Inflect Health](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/21ccd3376a60/) (inflecthealth.medium.com, June 20, 2023)

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