{"id":12781,"date":"2024-09-11T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2024-09-11T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:26:32","slug":"the-chatbot-will-see-you-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12781","title":{"rendered":"The Chatbot Will See You Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Americans are already turning to A.I. for health information in large numbers, new research suggests.<\/p>\n

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Susan Sheridan had heard of ChatGPT but had never used it, so the first question she asked the artificial intelligence chatbot was a bit garbled: \u201cFacial droop, facial pain and dental work.\u201d<\/p>\n

She had turned to ChatGPT in a moment of desperation. The right side of her face was sagging, she tripped over words as she spoke and her head hurt so much that she couldn\u2019t rest her head on the pillow.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, when her husband first noticed the drooping, the couple drove three hours to an emergency room, only for the doctor to send her home after labeling her symptoms as benign.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT disagreed. One potential explanation for her symptoms, the chatbot told her, was Bell\u2019s palsy, which needed urgent treatment to avoid lasting damage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She made another trip to the emergency room, where a doctor confirmed the chatbot\u2019s suspicions and gave her steroids and antivirals. As a result, she was mostly cured.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>I don\u2019t want to replace doctors \u2014 I believe in the doctor-patient relationship, I believe in the health care system,\u201d<\/em> said Ms. Sheridan, 64, co-founder of a patient safety advocacy organization.<\/p>\n

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Americans are already turning to A.I. for health information in large numbers, new research suggests.Susan Sheridan had heard of ChatGPT but had never used it, so the first question she asked the artificial intelligence chatbot was a bit garbled: \u201cFacial droop, facial pain and dental work.\u201dShe had turned to ChatGPT in a moment of desperation. The right side of her face was sagging, she tripped over words as she spoke and her head hurt so much that she couldn\u2019t rest her head on the pillow.A day earlier, when her husband first noticed the drooping, the couple drove three hours to an emergency room, only for the doctor to send her home after labeling her symptoms as benign.ChatGPT disagreed. One potential explanation for her symptoms, the chatbot told her, was Bell\u2019s palsy, which needed urgent treatment to avoid lasting damage.She made another trip to the emergency room, where a doctor confirmed the chatbot\u2019s suspicions and gave her steroids and antivirals. As a result, she was mostly cured.\u201cI don\u2019t want to replace doctors \u2014 I believe in the doctor-patient relationship, I believe in the health care system,\u201d said Ms. Sheridan, 64, co-founder of a patient safety advocacy organization.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12783,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12784,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions\/12784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}