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It can also help get better medical advice into people's hands, when such can be extremely inaccessible under our current, maximum enshittified healthcare system.
That is a good thing and a bad thing. Self diagnosis will inevitably end with misdiagnosis.
I think AI has the potential to increase the amount of patients seen, and maybe even decrease cost, but in the enshittified American system I’m willing to bet it would not be close to the best outcome