Not when you're a doctor in the EU dealing with the shortages of socialized care where you have a limited amount of time to spend diagnosing a patient because there's dozens waiting in the queue. As a doctor you'd like to give everyone better care but you can't because you have too many people to see and too little time.
Doctors here are busy AF and sometimes misdiagnose you because they don't have time to look into every possibility of what you might be suffering from.
So maybe AI could help there, as in giving them some hints on things they might iss, as waiting for the governments to fix healthcare is like waiting for them to also fix climate change.
Yes, there are queues and waiting times in our socialized healthcare here in the Netherlands. One problem is the lack of staff. Also more and more older people getting older than before. Another is the lack of funding due to the government trying to privatize as much as they can get away with (like health insurance), which loops back into the first problem.
However, my wife needed medication that was 10000 EUR per dose, which was fully covered by our socialized healthcare insurance. For most things related to health at the most I need to pay a total of 385 EUR per year out of pocket, next to the insurance premium which is about 130 a month. When those 385 EUR is gone for the year, I don't need to pay anything at all. People who can't afford the insurance premium get money from the government to cover that, and if that is not enough and you still can't pay your insurance, you are still eligible for any health care you need and a service will cover for you until you can pay again.
There are waiting lists for many things, yes, but mostly for non-urgent, non-lifethreatening things. If you need something done, it can be done. And you won't be thrown into debt to pay for it.
Or a doctor in a US emergency department, where EMTALA essentially socializes access to emergency care without creating any provisions for funding said care.
How does the US doctor get impacted by that? Your cheap shot jab at an counter argument makes no sense. You probably mean the patience are dealing with the shortages, not the doctors.
Also, I'm only commenting on the EU system as that's the one I'm dealing with right now. Why do you feels the need to start a holy war on how the US system is worse? I have no expertise with the US system so I'm avoiding any comparisons with it.
The US doctor has an incentive to overmedicalise the patients as he'll make more money by upselling stuff they don't need. An AI assisting the diagnosis is detrimental to that as the AI will be doing the upselling and getting the kickbacks from those "ask your doctor about" advertisers.
A doctor could choose to see 20 people a day and charge $100 each, or see 10 people a day and charges $200 each. Indeed perhaps there's an incentive to see fewer people as they'll pay the same hourly rate but cost less to treat as they're just paying $250 an hour to talk about last night's game.
Reality is though that 28% of US people have to wait more than a day to see a doctor, far higher than Germany, UK, Sweden and Norway.
> A common misconception in the U.S. is that countries with universal health care have much longer wait times. However, data from nations with universal coverage, coupled with historical data from coverage expansion in the United States, show that patients in other nations often have similar or shorter wait times.
So perhaps AI could help with the disfunctional american system afterall.
Not when you're a doctor in the EU dealing with the shortages of socialized care where you have a limited amount of time to spend diagnosing a patient because there's dozens waiting in the queue. As a doctor you'd like to give everyone better care but you can't because you have too many people to see and too little time.
Doctors here are busy AF and sometimes misdiagnose you because they don't have time to look into every possibility of what you might be suffering from.
So maybe AI could help there, as in giving them some hints on things they might iss, as waiting for the governments to fix healthcare is like waiting for them to also fix climate change.