Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
Outperforms Physicians <i>answering questions on a public subreddit</i>:<p>&gt; In this cross-sectional study, a public and nonidentifiable database of questions from a public social media forum (Reddit’s r&#x2F;AskDocs) was used to randomly draw 195 exchanges from October 2022 where a verified physician responded to a public question<p>They didn’t go to physicians in a patient setting. The physician answers were taken from Reddit threads where they were interacting with people who were not their patients.<p>Reddit has its own dynamic and people tend to get snarky&#x2F;jaded. Using this as a baseline for physician responses seems extremely misleading.