r/PatientPowerUp • u/Old_Glove9292 • 19h ago

GPT-5 outperforms licensed human experts by 25-30% and achieves SOTA results on the US medical licensing exam and the MedQA benchmark

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u/runsonpedals 18h ago

Google is better than many doctors that I’ve seen. And less expensive.

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u/Rickleskilly 17h ago

It has helped me diagnose a medical issue I've been struggling with for nearly 20 years without a resolution, despite dozens of tests, hospitalizations, and numerous doctors. It works because it's not in a hurry, doesn't have preconceived ideas, and isn't caught up in ego.

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u/HoPMiX 16h ago

But completely useless in emergency situations.

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u/Rickleskilly 15h ago

Not always. It depends on the emergency and the situation. And to be fair, doctors often suck in emergency situations too. I once had an ER doctor tell me my miscarriage was just a period. It turned out he was 100% wrong. I had been pregnant, had lost the pregnancy, and required a DNC and monitoring. I also went to the ER once for severe abdominal pain and was told it was constipation. It turns out I had a blockage and needed surgery to remove about a foot of my colon. Years before that, my grandmother died of a burst colon in similar circumstances after being sent home multiple times with laxatives.

The truth is, doctors have blind spots, biases, and egos and it doesn't stop in the ER.

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u/agitatedprisoner 3h ago

I found out I was giving myself pulmonary edema by habitually drinking too much fluid from free google AI. Could be I'd have had to call an ambulance at some point in the future had I not figured out that was the reason. At the time I thought I'd developed an allergy to a kind of tea I'd recently been drinking.