ChatGPT and Doctors: Friends or Foes?

ChatGPT in Healthcare

I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT for a couple of weeks to explore how it is going to impact Doctors and here are my conclusions:

[1] Is ChatGPT going to replace doctors?
The answer is,unequivocally, NO. ChatGPT it is not designed to diagnose conditions or specific cases. It cannot account for practical aspects of medicine, determine probabilities and decide appropriate treatment based on multiple factors.

[2] Dr.Google to Dr.ChatGPT?
Patients using google to self-diagnose conditions is not something new. Which is the better fake doctor among them? Depends. Information ChatGPT provides is more error-free(though not completely), but is more generalised. ChatGPT cannot diagnose conditions and provide treatment, but if patients want to read about a condition they have, to understand it with non-medical terms, ChatGTP does a decent job. Google should be worried, doctors less so.

[3] Can ChatGPT be used by doctors?
Access to concise information is useful to everyone, including doctors. It provides a more well rounded overview of medical conditions than most google answers. But it requires several further enquires to delve deeper into details. Still it is hard to have blind faith in it due to the lack of transparency, as small portions may be from unreliable sources. Google providing the link to well researched, scientific/medical websites would still be more assuring.

[4] ChatGPT and Medical Research

All you have to do is ask it your research question, and prompt it to give you a brief literature review on it, and it will give you a very useful, substantial answer. It can’t do the literature review for your thesis/research paper completely (not yet at least), but it gives your a very good starting point. While it can list citations of the articles, it does not provide any external links. Also, it fall subpar in providing recent articles from the past 3-4 years.

[5] What should Doctors definitely use ChatGPT for?
I realised that the real strength of ChatGPT lies in its ability for language understanding, processing and summarisation. So here are 3 things I’m going to use ChatGPT for:
• To summarise entire articles, sections of text any text to a size/word limit that I decide.
• To paraphrase entire texts.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?This just made writing research papers, thesis, and presentations a lot easier. And if you’ve been with me till here, I’ll let you in on a secret. ChatGPT paraphrases so well that it sails through basic plagiarism checking softwares. I checked!
• To plan projects. Be it research or presentations. ChatGPT can be very pragmatic, and if required, creative as well.

So to summarise, *insert 50 word summary generated by ChatGPT*.
ChatGPT IS a game changer, not just for healthcare, for mankind.

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