Fuuuuuuuuuuck that
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I see no existential, ethical, or legal problems with this. /SARCASM
If it can qualify as a practitioner, it should qualify fully as a practitioner, either as a physician who's qualified to practice medicine or a nurse practitioner the same way.
Pragmatically I could see an AI performing as well as pharmacists who have limited prescription ability. However it would require a lot more holistic human interaction, which again gets into confidentiality and data privacy.
As written, I don't necessarily have a problem with it. It simply allows the possibility for AI to be approved. However, AI is nowhere near ready. I'm quite worried it'll be approved for use before it is ready though.
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I’m not 100% against this. Sure it is a risk some might not be willing to make - but if I can take a strept test on my own and goto a robot and get my antibiotics at 12:30 am on a Sunday and it doesn’t cost me $150 office visit -sign me up. Most of the time docs just give a test and prescribe a pill. I can do it. They aren’t hard tests - usually 3 steps. Just make the tests available over the counter!!!
I’ll use myself as an even better example.
I have to take medicine for a chronic condition
- there is almost no chance of that changing, and the medicine wouldn’t be dangerous
- it’s not addictive
- not expensive
- can’t be abused
- it’s a common medicine with no black market value
Yet every 30 days, the doctor needs to write a refill. I never talk to him, there are no tests, I just leave a voicemail and they send it to the pharmacy the next day. That doctor adds no value.
Most of us would say I should at least be able to get 90 day supply or automatic renewal by the pharmacy. However a way to save the cost of that useless doctor without actually fixing anything is to have an “ai” do it. Or a cron job
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