r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 14h ago

Wait a damn minute! Bad time for a how-to YouTube video.

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u/FrontLifeguard1962 13h ago

Doc here, we have peer-reviewed and vetted medical databases, the use of which requires you to be a licensed physician and pay for access. We don't use Google and ChatGPT to put together a treatment plan.

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u/billywaterfall 12h ago

Do the databases give probability of certain conditions based on patients blood tests?

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u/poopoofol 38m ago

Not exactly. Services like up to date are basically like a medical encyclopedia with lit review entries for various conditions or phenomena, with links to studies about them, standard treatments, what type of further testing to order, and so on.

There's a newer AI feature but I haven't used it personally.

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u/Thebeardinato462 12h ago

Even if you did. Informed, specific questions with a strong educational and clinical background yield very different results than a layman typing a few symptoms into google and tunneling in on the first thing they read.

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u/Jellace 10h ago

I watched my GP type "calculate amoxicyllin dose for 11kg infant" and copy paste the answer into the prescription... Needless to say I did not get that script filled lol (also based on second opinions). I know that the databases for that stuff are easy to use. Why did they feel the need to put it through a linear algebra machine?