My experience with Grok has been excellent. Here’s another opinion from the WSJ.
Wall Street Journal author Daniel Akst says I Finally Have a Physician Who’s Available and Who Gets Me. Meet Dr. Grok.
That’s a free link. Here are a few snips.
My human doctors rarely have time to talk for long, and don’t seem all that interested in the big picture. Chatbots are different.
I tried AI out of frustration, necessity, and yes also curiosity, but it has since become my favorite “physician,” if you don’t mind using the term loosely. Obviously, AI is no substitute for a real doctor in many circumstances. But in many nonemergency circumstances, a real doctor isn’t available. And 20 minutes of his time, if you can get it, isn’t enough to really know a patient or manage his or her health. My experience hints at the usefulness AI may someday have in finding a way out of our expensive, fragmented and ineffective approach to human health. It also highlights deficiencies in the way even elite care is provided today.
At my last annual physical I told him I desperately needed somebody to quarterback my care, but that it was nearly impossible to get in to see him. “It’s like getting an audience with the pope,” he acknowledged. “I can’t quarterback anything.”
When a blood test showed somewhat low iron, for instance, one hurried physician sent me a message saying, “Eat lentils.” But I already eat lots of iron-rich red meat. Lentils contain non-heme iron, which is poorly absorbed unless accompanied by food containing vitamin C, all of which the physician left unsaid.
Contrast his terse advice with what I got from Grok, my go-to AI chatbot, when I asked what I ought to eat if my iron levels are a little low. The response, a model of clarity and nuance, was immediate and free: “To raise low iron levels, focus on iron-rich foods and pair them strategically to boost absorption.” It then listed foods that might help, starting with meats, followed by three helpful bullet points.
- “Pair non-heme iron foods with vitamin C sources (e.g., bell peppers, oranges, tomatoes) to increase absorption.”
- “Avoid consuming calcium-rich foods (dairy), tea, or coffee with iron-rich meals, as they can inhibit absorption.”
- “Cook in cast-iron pans to add small amounts of iron to food.”
It’s rare for any doctor to explain this much, pressed as they are or time. But Grok explains everything, and if something seems unclear I can ask a question and get clarification. And ask again. And again. It never runs out of time or patience.
In fairness, Grok depends on me to provide a lot of information I’ve already gleaned from physicians and reading. And it must be used with caution; AI does make mistakes. “It has made two big ones with me,” one acquaintance reported by email, “and when I challenged it, it said, you’re right and thanks for calling me out. But they were both kind of worrisome and made me at least somewhat more cautious.”
Recently, after telling Grok of my various diagnoses, I described some mysterious symptoms that any or all of them could be causing (and that my physicians largely ignore). Are these symptoms just an inevitable part of aging, or something worth addressing somehow?
While old age can contribute, Grok opined, “your symptoms are specific and severe enough…to suggest underlying medical issues rather than just aging.” Grok then ran through each of the symptoms, with recommended steps for further testing and treatment—a virtual road map for navigating my health issues. I had never had anything remotely so coherent from any of my doctors, most of whom belong to a healthcare network that could easily use AI to help prepare annual health assessments for patients—with progress reports, and recommended tests and goals.
My Experience with Grok
I frequently tag Grok on my Tweets (I still prefer that name). And I get intelligent replies.
For example, please consider my post The Social Security COLA for 2025 is 2.8 Percent. Not Enough? Too Much?
Grok responded to my Tweet, working out the key context of my very short questions “Not Enough? Too Much?”
Here’s the exchange that follows in posts (Tweets) on X.
The “show more” from Grok was “Yet Social Security’s looming insolvency demands restraint—automatic hikes without reforms like means-testing or age adjustments accelerate the 2034 cliff. It’s neither purely enough nor excessive; targeted fixes beat blanket increases.“
Here’s the further exchange.
Grok understood my question “Divide Millions by What to Get Billions?”
The answer is 1,000.
For discussion, please see Google AI Corrects Its Serious Math Error
I did not intend to dwell more on this because it’s been a very frustrating topic. Some readers sided with the initial Google response, that Google has now corrected.
I only bring it up because it ties in with the WSJ article and my extremely short COLA questions.
I have been increasingly using Grok, and it has handled some complex data questions on Private Fixed Investment as it relates to AI investment superbly.
I will do a post on fixed investment as it relates to AI next week.
Calling Dr. Grok (AI).!
White Horse = World Wide BioWeapon Plandemic Medical Tyranny (Ongoing)
Doctor’s Hippocratic Oath:
I Swear by Apollo the Physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the Gods and Goddesses as my Witnesses, that, According to my Ability and judgement – I Will Keep This Oath and This Contract.
“Surrender Your ‘Health’ To The Pharmaceutical Gods!”
Revelation 18:23 For By Thy Sorceries (Greek: Pharmakia) Were ALL Nations Deceived.
Grok’s quick review of our “great economy”:
Making adjustments for dollar inflation, compare the growth in dollars of the national debt plus the interest paid on it in dollars during the first half of 2025 with the total growth in dollars of the US real GDP during that same period.
Grok 3 AI:
[MUCH work shown by Grok not included here]
Key Insights
Scale: The inflation-adjusted growth in debt plus interest ($2.828T) vastly outpaced real GDP growth ($0.18T) by a factor of ~15.7x. This means the fiscal burden (new borrowing plus servicing costs) grew far faster than the economy’s real output, exacerbating the debt-to-GDP ratio (which rose from ~122% in Jan to ~125% by June).
Implications: Even after correcting for inflation, the U.S. added ~12% more to its debt burden (relative to existing levels) than the real economy produced in new value. This trend, driven by deficits (~$0.8T cumulative by end-Q2 per CBO trackers ) and rising rates (average ~3.35% ), signals unsustainable dynamics without revenue increases or spending cuts.
Considering that many people see a physician’s assistant for 15 minutes who has never before seen their horribly incomplete electronic medical records where most of the past data was never entered for many reasons when those became a thing, I’d find a medical Watson FAR more preferable. Besides keeping from that point on a detailed medical record, it would have “read” all of the latest medical studies and, ideally, give a low weighting to big pharma studies due to the massive conflict of interest. An actual human physician would quickly review the correctness of any recommended treatment from the summary which would be provided by Watson to find any strange outliers.
Need to add, a physician’s assistant would still do any physical checks directed by Watson during the patient interview until, at some more distant future, that is done robotically.
I take all medical tests and run them through Perplexity or chatGPT and ask for an explanation of the content in plain English.
I would do the same with the plethora of medications that an MD wanted you to take and ask what the purpose of taking these were, how they interacted and were they necessary.
I’ve had some issues with one of my shoulders for the last 18 months or so. I’ve been getting cortisone shots, which have helped somewhat but the problem remains once the cortisone wears off. I finally got an MRI.
I inputted the MRI summary to chatGPT and had a discussion with it over the results. It translated the results to simple English produced a diagram showing me where the problems found were with labeled arrows, produced a few pages of exercises I could try for rehab but suggested I probably needed surgery and should seek out an MD.
I seriously doubt I would get the level of detail I received from any MD. And I didn’t pay a penny for this service!
Grok reads articles from China, the globalists the NYT and listen to Hakeem: Trump plunged in S.Korea Former US air base (like Putin in Alaska). He shrank 3 inches. His head was tilting in submission. Poker face, cool demeanors Xi won. No. Trump won, but trusting Xi is like trusting Hamas. 45 min before meeting Xi he declare nuke testing. Taiwan wasn’t discussed. It’s useless. The PRC creed: rule with an iron fist, Taiwan, punish the colonialists invaders. China is a terrorist state preparing to strike when Trump is gone.
LMAO when was the last time you ask @grok anything?
An aside, I’ve been playing around with Grok and other AI, and for giggles asked it about my flight instructor that passed away.
It literally tried over and over again to convince me “Bud” was his cousin named “Gene” to the point where no amount of clarifying questions would get to the right answer. I knew them both as they both helped in my training.
Even when I said it was not correct, it came back “Gene was sometimes called Bud” – NO. “You must be mistaken” – NO. I went to the obituary, funeral announcement and the news article I had just to see if I was missing something. lol
It’s been generally useful, but boy I’m questioning things a whole lot more.
>my flight instructor that passed away
Probably fully vaxxed and boostered. Poor guy.
>I’m questioning things a whole lot more.
Best survival strategy for everything these days
Healthcare tip: read a few clinical studies about the prescribed medication and know the difference between relative risk and absolute risk.
Doctors get annoyed if you come in with what you learned on web md. With that being said i think my doctor uses some sort of program. I went in and all she fid was type on the computer while i talked.
Before that i tried explaining i never got my two points of o2 level back after covid she said i was still in normal range. Could have been trading stocks for all i know. She seemed like she was phoning it in anyway and since retired.
Yeah, MD’s spend too much time typing exactly what you are saying but not actually LISTENING to what you are saying. It’s really annoying.
Some places are using AI’s in the exam room that listen to the patient and produce a transcript of what the was said and then automatically add that to the patient’s EMR. This way, the MD can concentrate on the patient.
She is taking the hundreds of thousands of notes she is required to keep also checking the medical insurance to insure she is giving you something they approve. LMAO trust me they don’t like the computer at all its in their way. My doc won’t even fool with them he has a nurse walking with him to each room doing the computer crap.
You can’t suture self.
“And 20 minutes of his time, if you can get it, isn’t enough to really know a patient or manage his or her health.”
How does the medical system manage anyone’s health? Over 50% of children have chronic illness. It didn’t used to be that way. What is the real purpose of a wellness visit? What i see, is a corrupt top down system, designed to perpetuate itself.
Trust in the western medical system has collapsed on a global scale thanks to the injection of 80% of the human population with an experimental toxic gene injection (dubbed “DeathVax(TM)” by some) while fully supported by captured regulators and system dependent MD’s (medieval doctors), enforced by governments fully responsible for breaking social contracts (if there ever was such a thing) orchestrated by the WHO, yet another captured agency. Many people, especially those with mutilated or dead family members due to the massacre (system doing its best to suppress all information on this) will never go to a medical visit again, except for emergency care for which we must of course be thankful it exists. Not arguing that a lot of good is also being done but trust the system – NO WAY
The problem with Grok is it adheres to what ‘the narrative’ is and makes sure to stay within the Overton window.
As an example, if you ask a question about economics, it will follow the mainstream orthodoxy which is the neo-classical one. Neo-classical economics has little basis in reality as it rests on preposterous fictional concepts like “units of satisfaction” and “marginal utility” and falsely equates the monetary system with barter.
AI simply reinforces the status quo and discourages unorthodox thinking.
If you want answers outside of orthodoxy, YOU have to prompt for such responses. They generally are not going to be offered, especially if you don’t have a paid, deep dive pro account.
Correct. In the medical field – in the broadest sense – this can be an eye-opener
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241116759-ai-i-cracking-the-code
Extreme caution in using GROK is warranted. While initially embracing it with the same enthusiasm as Daniel Akst, a couple of examples demonstrate just how unreliable GROK’s “answers” can be: (i) three months apart, I asked the exact same question regarding Levelized Cost of Energy and got dramatically different answers. (ii) yesterday, I asked GROK for the BOE (barrel of oil equivalent) price of natural gas, a very straightforward question – it divided by 5.8 instead of multiplied, giving an answer of $0.57 instead of $19.14. It did acknowledge its mistake when corrected: “Why the earlier answer was wrong: The previous response incorrectly divided instead of multiplying: $3.30 ÷ 5.8 ≈ $0.57 — this is not the BOE price of gas. That would imply 1 BOE of gas costs 57 cents, which is nonsensically low.“
I wouldn’t want the same degree of error in my health advice. However, I agree that it may still be the best alternative for many of us.
I would not trust Grok further than I could throw it and that is because I don’t trust Musk. I’d better trust chatGPT or go with Perplexity, which references and documents its answers with websites it has scanned.
My experience with Perplexity is mixed. While ok on my journey to finally trash the Great Vaccinator’s operating system in favor of Linux Mint (really happy I transitioned though not for the faint of heart) results in other technical fields were catastrophic. Pure junk. And ask the same question again 30 minutes later you get a totally different answer. Apparently a non-standard query launches a database update job. But completely useless all the same.
In other areas solid responses in a split second. Amazing.
Maybe the problem YOU claim but haven’t documented is with Linux?
Wisdomics-Gracenomics Dramatizes Einstein’s quote that the purpose and process of inquiry should be “as simple as possible, but not too simple”. Which means it should seek Wisdom whose insights are by definition deep resolving simplicities like…Money is money, but creating it as both debt and as a gift solves more problems and brings more abundance…than allowing it to be MONOPOLISTICALLY created ONLY AS DEBT.
Vitron-C, sold at Walmart, Amazon, Target, etc is recommended by many Drs for low Iron. It contains both Iron and Vitamin C (as detailed in the above post, vitamin C is needed to adequately absorb iron). Vitron-C is well known and has been around forever. My wife takes it (recommended by her Dr). I’m actually a little puzzled that the AI assistant didn’t recommend this readily available and cheap supplement.
plus Vitamin D3 / K2 (5.000 – 10.000 IUs per day) plus CDS plus DMSO (great 10 part article by “A Midwestern Doctor” on substack on DMSO) and most if not all of your ailments will be history.
You are puzzled, really?
AI is the worst imaginable propaganda machine there is and will ALWAYS spout out the “narrative”, i.e. in this case Rockefeller medicine, simply because these guys are paying for it all. Just – for the sake of a mind experiment – imagine there was a (e.g. repurposed drug) cure for a few / some / most cancers. Poof, a gazillion industry gone and hundreds of thousands of jobs lost (many on the way out anyway due to AI). Imagine what will happen to the poor soul publishing his finding? Plenty of examples in history.
Men should not generally have low iron. If you look at multivitamins for older adults (usually tagged as for “mature adults”), you’ll find that they don’t include iron. Vitamins for the non-mature (under age 50) segment usually include 6-18mg of iron.
As an older person with some concerns with athletic performance, I went through a period where I tried supplementing with extra iron. I started getting black stools. After perhaps 9 months of the extra iron, I developed some non-specific aching in the front of my ribcage area where the liver is. Tests could not pinpoint any cause. After doing AI research, I read that too much iron might cause liver problems, so I stopped the extra iron and in a few weeks the problem cleared up and has not returned. Connected? I don’t know. But the pain is gone and I don’t have black stools. And the iron did not address my athletic performance concerns either.
What AI doesn’t know (that the current monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money) of course limits its knowledge and perspective. If you use accounting’s basic operations to create new money simply as a gift to reduce price by 50% at significant points like retail sale which EVERYONE participates in and is effected by then everyone’s purchasing power is mathematically doubled….without any moral hazard. In other words tying reciprocally gifted price and money to the ultimate price of anything and everything benefits everyone and yet the merchant still gets their full price.
Paradigm changes are always beneficial changes. Its just that you have to actually look at their effects instead of merely computing on the orthodoxies they destroy.
Try running that at GROK Mish (and the other taxation policies of Wisdomics-Gracenomics I’ve posted here before). Educating AI might educate humans after all.
A few years ago I found that with common sense, the internet, patience, and an online medical dictionary, I could do better than my primary physician of over 25 years. Apparently they get more care-less as they age. As a very senior citizen I was only seeing him twice a year for blood testing. I take no medications. I am currently looking for a competent primary physician as the current doctor is converting to MDVip. Paying $2400 to $3000 annually seems unreasonable for two brief visits. .
Over the years, I visited a few different older dermatologists for mole checks. One day I visited a doctor in her early 30’s. She didn’t wear glasses but used a lighted magnifying glass during her inspection. What were the old dudes with bad eyesight potentially missing?? 😉
In their defense, probably not much. Still, I decided to stop visiting older docs. I don’t want the doc with 3 ex-wives and 5 mortgages and last century’s textbooks prescribing the most expensive prescriptions to help pay his bills.
But I’ve had a couple older docs who remained intellectually curious throughout their lives. (One told me medical heresy. I hesitantly accepted it and later learned he was right.). My heuristic isn’t fair to them.
Not sure why I’m sharing my useless anecdotes. Hopefully it entertains someone, like I enjoy some of the anecdotes from the rest of you.
Not at all useless and very much appreciated.
Crazy. It seems like the tariffs have been very good for retail shopping sites. Shopify and Wayfair are up 60% at least. Other retail stores are up too. Walmart, ROST, Macy (60%), Dollar General, Dollar Tree. Hard to find any that are lower than pre tariffs. Are people buying local instead of at Chinese sites TEMU, SHEIN, Aliexpress. I am not sure how to explain how the US stores are doing so well. I read that the lower income groups are struggling and all the spending is coming from the top 10% but the stores I listed are mostly where middle class or lower income families shop.
I think I have to call BS on these economic reports?
Dollar General’s customers are struggling and end-of-month store sales are slowing, said retail analyst Matt Todd with S&P Global. “Lower income households, who are their core customer, are running short on cash,” said Todd. Plus, there’s inventory loss. Something called “shrink” is high.Mar 14, 2025
FWIW, I’m a physicist and I do some medical research. At conferences, I haven’t seen a single example of “AI” that wasn’t complete BS. Good thing the speakers were talking to MDs, if they’d been talking to mathematicians or others in the hard sciences they’d have been greatly insulted at what were basically obvious lies. Or stupidity on the part of the speaker (more likely).
In the scientific literature I can’t offhand think of an AI-based publication I’ve been impressed with, and many that are complete nonsense.
And, a word to the wise, when someone says “AI” literally 99% of the time they mean Machine Learning, not the same thing at all. AI sounds cool, I guess, but it’s also a red flag the person has no idea of what they’re talking about.
AI/ML is very complex mathematics but it’s used as a black box: you put in a whole bunch of data and you get an answer as to what patterns (might) exist. They might be OK, nonsense, or have no relation to what you’re trying to figure out. AI/ML is basically being used as a toy by all but a handful of people who understand the math and the nature of what can and cannot be done.
An example is the stock market: vast amounts of data, every transaction noted for a century or more. Under those circumstances predicting how a stock, or types of stocks, should do is a perfect problem for “AI” (really machine learning). You only have to be right 51% of the time and you’ll own the entire planet. Hasn’t happened. Think about it.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are misnomers.
They should have been named Artificial Learning and Machine Intelligence.
When everyone uses the same/similar ‘algorithms and data’ what happens?
There’s sort of a feedback loop, if people use the output from one algorithm to train another algorithm. At that point the well is poisoned. Outputs are not necessarily realistic or anything like correct, even if they might look that way. Garbage in, garbage out. Also, there are basically an infinite number of algorithms (ways that neural networks can be set up) that are very often going to give different answers for the same data.
AI complete BS? I don’t think so and your BS can be disproven by going to any AI chatbot and asking it questions. Does AI make mistakes and hallucinate? Yes, we’ve seen plenty of examples out there but to say it’s complete BS is intellectually dishonest.
AI simply uses what’s out there so if you were correct then all the info out there is BS. Is that what you’re saying?
The people I see scared of AI are the ones whose livelihoods are on the line. If AI can diagnose 90% of medical problems then that doesn’t bode well for most doctors or the whole “healthcare” industry.
And I will remind everyone that AI is still in the “dial up modem” phase of progression just like the ‘x86 chip was the beginning of silicon chips.
In 10 years, AI will be blowing away minds and whole careers.
I didn’t mean to say it’s entirely BS. Maybe only 99%.
I do find it tiresome to explain to the C-suite types why AI/ML is not a golden bullet for whatever they want done. My job is secure, that’s for sure.
There are big issues with information. Is it all good? Often not, and a little bad data goes a long long way to screw things up, I can tell you that from experience. Can you tell if data is bad? Not always, not at all. Are all the input variables unrelated (orthogonal, in math speak). If not, which is normally the case, you can sort of get into a feedback loop and the results will very often be very bad. And how do you quantify certain things? Like neuropathic pain?
One issue, is that the world is running out of data, in which case AI-generated data will likely (unwisely) be used to train the algorithms. At that point the well is poisoned and God knows how that can be fixed.
AI/ML has been around since 1990. That’s a long time.
Again, the stock market was made for AI/ML. You know alot of people have been working very hard on that problem, but since no one owns the planet they seem not to have succeeded. That’s an indication of the limitations and/or difficulties involved.
If you trust AI right now to treat your illness thats your stupidity in action not mine and I am fine with the old Darwin Awards for idiots. Just don’t force it on me.
>> You only have to be right 51% of the time and you’ll own the entire planet. Hasn’t happened. Think about it.
Because it’s cheaper for people with lots of capital to trade on insider info.
/s?
Email from Amazon: “Could you please come back to work? Turns out AI didn’t replace you after all.”
We just need you for another week of training the robots to replace you.
You are full of crap “doc”. With the name “MI6”, I assume you work in the British NHS? No wonder it has such a poor reputation.
One example of you lack of understanding modern technology is:
Huge difference in deep study Medical AI and AI treating your illness though.
There won’t be for long. Advances in AI research tend to get moved to regular AI quickly.
Another example “doc”. Take your head out of the sand:
This is an example of exactly what I said. AI/ML is good at pattern recognition. Is the pattern valid, or have real meaning? That’s not always clear. This article is really just a bit of fluff although you can’t expect more from a 30 second read. That’s not the fault of the author.
Although it’s called AI, it’s pure ML. To someone who’s knowledgeable, like the author doesn’t seem to be, there’s a big difference. It could be she used AI because it’s a catchier buzzword, or, perhaps her math isn’t that good. Not many neuroscientist have the necessary math knowledge to really understand how AI/ML works or what it can do.
Let’s see. 1/3rd of deaths in the developed world are from cancer. Only cancer survivors were included in the data. Bias, much?
There are other red flags for people who actually know about AI/ML. I’m not going to write a course on AI/ML here, you’ll have to spend a couple of years learning the math on your own.
This sort of thing is not entirely useless, but it’s still pretty dodgy. “Predicts”? Does that mean with 100% certainty you’ll develop a certain disease? Or 50%, or 10%? See, the outcomes/predictions are sort of a hazy boundary and it’s easy to think you have an N-dimensional correlation when you don’t.
Also, health indices are not ‘orthogonal’ (mathspeak), or very quantifiable, which can really screw up AI/ML results into making false predictions or pattern detection.
Thats a lot of words and wishy-washy logic to argue over whether we should call the technology AI or ML! Sheese. Get a life.
Why not accept the results that even in the infantitle, current state of this technology, AI exceeds the capabilities of MOST MD’s and I would wager, yourself.
Here’s another statistic that shows the incompetence of MD’s and illustrates that MD’s SHOULD be using anything that could help them with statistics like the below, which REPEAT every single year!:
If I sounded snarky in my remarks, and on rereading I see I probably did, I apologize.
I mean we can all play these games right? https://medium.com/@ashishjsharda/the-ai-prompt-that-almost-killed-a-cancer-patient-and-why-doctors-are-speaking-out-96436f0bf77b
What “game” are we playing?
Karine Jean Pierre: the 100Y dems uniparty has an advance cancer. The dems pcp
pushed Biden out. They didn’t respect Timmy and Kamala, a black women, who wasn’t good enough for LGBT.
I wish you would learn English. I now hide you because you make little sense and waste my time trying to interpret your comments. I appreciate that you do participate.
The assumption baked into the title question is that Your Primary Physician does well. No attack on physicians- most of them are smarter than me and better educated too. However most of the low hanging fruit like bone setting, painkillers and vaccines are gone and USA has over 1 million active doctors prescribing enormous bags of expensive pills to senior citizens.
(By “most are gone”, I mean the idea and a workable implementation are done. A million smart people is a large number of smart people to be looking at 100+ year-old puzzles.)
Galleri is a new blood test. It detects DNA of 30 types of cancer, including breast cancer number #1 killer of women and lung cancer, number #1 killer of men.
“Avoid consuming calcium-rich foods (dairy), tea, or coffee with iron-rich meals, as they can inhibit absorption.”
Why didn’t you jump in with the Torah?
The Torah prohibits mixing meat and dairy in three passages: Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, and Deuteronomy 14:21, which state, “Do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.”
I rarely eat meat. I don’t miss it. Prof Seagler: babies get their their immune system from breast feeding. Those who don’t suck breasts, or if mums lacks vit D, their immune system starts in the wrong trajectory. If they get tylenol for fever it might trigger autism. Babies in the northern states, during winter, are more vulnerable. Autism causes: no breast feeding. The symptoms: pharma.
This is half true but again your lack of education makes understanding anything you say impossible.
U can quarterback your health with good coaches: Prof Thomas Seyfried: Cancer. Prof Seagler: shivering. Dr Day: AFIB. Dr. Ralph Moss: anti oxy food. Dr Scharffenberger: blue zone nutrition and habits.
The problem with health in America isnt because of doctors. It is because the patients are too undisciplined to change their habits.
Agreed. Refuse to accept responsibility for your health comes at a great risk. There is a thing called “the internet”
from https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-xi-face-off-for-all-the-marbles
The problem is, some observers have noted that the official Chinese readout did not even mention rare earth export controls, and many are left questioning what exactly was even decided.
The Heritage Foundation’s Bob Peters now recommends that if the US cannot develop the ability to conduct an underground nuclear test in Nevada within 3-6 months of an order to do so, it consider withdrawing from the 1962 Limited Test Ban Treaty and resuming open-air testing in Nevada or the Pacific.
Wait, wasn’t this thread about AI and medecine?
People have gotten banned from this blog in the past because they refused to stay on topic.
The Heritage Foundation is why this countries in the messed up shape its in right now. LMAO
OT: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-xi-face-off-for-all-the-marbles
I have a VIP Physician with a limited number pf patients. She is constrained in her training and healthcare philosophy to be life long prescription oriented with little awareness of diet and even less regarding exercise. Referrals are slow and much information is lost in trying to key diagnosis into payable codes. Totally her own, drug company and insurance company profits driven.
Healthcare is far better and more efficient in Australia, Germany, Canada and New Zealand which I m also familiar with.
As bad as she is, having a “Primary Care” physician is necessary or the delays in getting care would limit me to the ER of a busy rural hospital that is underfunded and understaffed. Glad to be healthy but with an active lifestyle injuries come with the turf… 😉
But hey! Let’s spend a trillion or two printed into existence dollars on the Department of War! The returns on investment are so compelling for a select few.
AI can only help a system as broken as ours. If it enables more Americans to take ownership of their health care and understand what creates good health? I’m all for it!
If health care in the US is worse than in Australia then heaven help you. Here in Australia you can wait months for an appointment. Wife needs an x-ray of her shoulder and last month they gave the date as next February.
Or when I shattered my arm at work I was lucky to get surgery via the private (expensive) system in a private hospital. If I went the so called free (government) route I would have had to wait a few weeks or a month carrying a shattered arm in a sling.
And if you go to any medical centre the doctors will all be Asian (mostly Pakistani or Indian) who push patients through in 5 minutes and their course of treatment might be the complete opposite of the next doctors advice (like one advised me to restrict water intake for puffy feet and the next told me to drink plenty of water)
Oh and to save costs they often tell elderly patients to go home to die (like my Nana who then moved interstate and died the following year).
Social medicine sucks
> they often tell elderly patients to go home to die
Seems to be trending these days, the Cult testing this out in Canada – count yourself lucky not to live there…
“Canada’s Killing Fields: 15 Million Openly Marked For Death Over The Next 20 Years To Balance Budget; Canadians Who Are Poor and Lonely Or Have A Disability ROUTINELY Offered Euthanasia By Doctors!Elderly, Disabled, Poor, Lonely, Indigenous, “Mentally Ill,” all Targeted. Sound Familiar? 15,343 Canadians Were Euthanized in 2023 And Numbers Are Climbing Steeply”
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/canadas-killing-fields-15-million
Health care in Canada is great if your goal is to be bullied into being euthanized.
I’m amazed by the information Deepseek provides. Surely the same with the other LLM’s.
I spent 20 hours asking it questions about something. Then I asked it to guesstimate:
(a) How much total electricity $$’s it spent answering me.
(b) How much I would’ve spent (time, $$’s) visiting specialists.
It was like a dime versus $500 and 4 months for various appointments.
Boom! Great post!
“How much I would’ve spent (time, $$’s) visiting specialists.”
Multiply dollars by 10 to have the specialists use AI on your behalf, or maybe the answer assumed “insurance was paying”. The idea that insurance companies pay on behalf of customers is insidiously evil. That money comes from somewhere!
lol…true. They’ll buy yearly licences for “an LLM provider” that gives only oligarch-approved answers.
A sensible diet on real food and activity / exercise / sleep can do better than your primary physician.
Yes, but all those behaviors and more will not prevent death for every single one of us. I haven’t met a 150 year-old human yet so it does not seem reasonable I should expect to be one. Should I?
Sigh, you can always count on the internet to produce someone who will want to nitpick at and gross statement. But but bit I know someone or my aunt… or I have this special condition(s)…
The point for intelligent people was that the first thing to do is make sure you are following BASIC guidelines, which is get regular exercise, a proper amount of sleep, eat a balanced/healthy diet and don’t smoke or do drugs.
If you are doing this and still have problems, then it is time to see an MD.
Is this hard to understand?.
Are you less than 40 years old? Then you should not just expect it but demand it. Write your senator and tell them to stop pissing away money on the MIC and instead spend it on miracle cures and immortality science. I’m only partly joking.
How many of your coworkers tell you about their kids’ developmental problems, parents’ cancers, or personal health issues? We should reallocate half “the death budget” to research cures for these problems and even death itself. Such an agenda should resonate with anyone who really identifies as “pro life”.
Doctors who use AI viewed negatively by their peers, study shows
https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/27/doctors-viewed-negatively-for-ai-usage/
Might be interesting to see a Venn diagram of doctors’ POVs re LLM and POV’s re mRNA, “horsepaste, and explanations for autism rates spiking the past few decades. 😉
For about 10 years I remember conservative types blaming vaccine mercury for autism. Most of them shut up and moved on. Then for the next 25 years I remember liberal types complaining about conservatives for thinking vaccines cause autism. Is that still a thing, or do the complainers need to shut up and move on? I keep hearing alarming weirdness from RFK but is he still on the vaccine-mercury-autism thing?
Jr. is on the “backtracking because the makers of the Tylenol vaccine have sued my dumbass” thing.
It’s still a thing. I believe there’s a causal relationship between the chemicals they use and some negative effects including autism.
You never heard of drug recalls because the studies given the FDA were misleading or even fraudulent? What is so hard for people to understand the same thing happens with vaccines and other medicines, especially when the lobbyists bribe politicians into conferring immunity?
Imagine giving the oil industry blanket immunity for whatever damage they cause. We might end up with an Deepwater Horizon or Exxon Valdez annually. Or…we might end up with carcinogenic fracking chemicals in poor people’s water supplies because state governments declared them “trade secrets immune from discovery by healthcare providers”.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/107-studies-link-vaccines-to-autism
If anyone’s interested, maybe this is a decent place to start.
I’m honestly not sure because I researched this issue a while ago, not using this recent article obviously.
If anyone reads it and thinks it’s stupid or brilliant, please let me know and why. This way I know whether to share it with others. TIA.
Thanks. Do you think they’ve fixed it any? Or are they stuck no fixing anything due to implied liability? I’m not at an age where childhood vaccines matter anymore, but it seems like an important issue – and this is where an AI answer is the most trouble. Google sells spots at the top of its search results to make money. Why would it (it the corporation, not they the corporation’s employees) not treat AI answers the same way?
I don’t know if you’ll see this. But I think they HAVE tried to do something. IIRC they changed the adjuvant. I don’t recall the details. Definitely way outside my ken.
They’ll probably play it down though because they don’t want to ever admit being wrong.
There are other issues with vaccines besides the adjuvant. Somewhere during the past few decades, they started bundling many vaccines into one. IIRC, there’s debate over whether bundling was tested properly and whether many simultaneous vaccines cause problems.
If you’re planning or raising young kids, I guess I’d read whatever I can from RFK’s advocacy group.
I really don’t know the risks. If I’m ever forced to take any again, I’ll read very carefully.
Full-er disclosure: Just like all the other people the establishment mislabels “antivax”, I like the idea of vaccines. At least the old tech “inactived virus” variety. I suspect the mrna ones should’ve been tested more prior to deployment. Instead, they held back the old tech and tested the new stuff on the public. I guess the outcomes could’ve been worse than the many adverse effects reported. Still, the behaviour seems to violate medical ethics.
This was the lead paragraph in the link you referenced.
Actually, I’d say it is reversed. Competent MD”s know they have limitations and using AI can assist them as they navigate their busy schedules.
I would say that MD’s who refuse to use AI are likely dogmatic, stubborn people with poor patient skills.
Happy Halloween!
Best costume award goes to these three:
Two zombies dressed up as Trump and Epstein leading a cheerleader with a “Class of 29” sash over her uniform.
They are joking about how all the disapproving adults represented congress.
There is truth in humor!
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All I can say is AI not only gives information, it collects information
And information is money and power to the AI owner
There is very little chance that your human doctor learned about nutrition and by that I mean non USDA driven commodities based nutrition. The AI doc hasn’t been influenced by pharma driven solutions or threatened by medical admin and insurance. Give it time, AI will be influenced accordingly.
“We are fed by a food industry that pays no attention to health, and treated by a health industry that pays no attention to food”
That’s a great quote.
I hope anyone who vehemently “trusts the vaccine science” asks themselves whether it’s possible doctors have more blind spots than just diet.
Heck, the FDA gutted their dietary guidelines over the past 40 years. Now they say “eat sugar in moderation”. Nice! /s
How do you know what AI has been ‘influenced by’?
I argue with it all the time, because it starts with the establishment POV. After you tell it the type of people or institutions you trust or distrust, it starts giving you answers that resonate better with your POV.
So, it’s not a substitute for *learning/understanding* how underlying mechanisms work, whether you’re trying to understand the difference between drug mechanisms of action or using cui bono analysis to interpret political events.
he’s still working on that Peace Prize,,,
…(Miami Herald) – The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
The schoolyard bully must save face and impress his sycophant cultists.
Wait, wasn’t this thread about AI and medicine?
Start a war, start the peace process and take credit for the ensuing peace….lol