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Comment on Ask HN: Should primary care doctors be replaced with AI?

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I believe it absolutely should be, and it can even be applied to rare disease diagnosis.

My child was just saved by AI. He suffered from persistent seizures, and after visiting three hospitals, none were able to provide an accurate diagnosis. Only when I uploaded all of his medical records to an AI system did it immediately suggest a high suspicion of MOGAD-FLAMES — a condition with an epidemiology of roughly one in ten million.

Subsequent testing confirmed the diagnosis, and with the right treatment, my child recovered rapidly.

For rare diseases, it is impossible to expect every physician to master all the details. But AI excels at this. I believe this may even be the first domain where both doctors and AI can jointly agree that deployment is ready to begin.

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