Hip
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Is this true? Have computers been put up against doctors in controlled environments? I tried the 'Symptoma' you recommended earlier and it immediately came up with CFS at the top of the chart and POTS second. In my journey of 30+ doctors at some of the most respected institutions in America, not one doctor said 'sounds like CFS' even though I was already aware of the disease.
ME/CFS is not a good disease to test the competence of primary care doctors, since ME/CFS is targeted by corrupt insurance companies, who constantly work to paint ME/CFS as an "all in the mind" psychologically-caused condition. So there is dire politics involved with ME/CFS, that we do not see in other diseases.
As you know, these insurance companies work in cahoots with unscrupulous psychiatrists to paint ME/CFS as a psychosomatic. This then saves insurance companies a fortune, as they can withhold disability payments from patients. The same process of psychologization of long COVID has already begun, for the same financial reasons.
So it's the dreadful politics behind ME/CFS that cause the problem.
Doctors can generally only follow the education they have been given in medical school, and I have read ME/CFS is touched upon for only a few hours in a medical degree (just a few hours in the entire 5-year course of a medical degree). And in many cases, because of the corrupt work of these psychiatrists, medical students may be taught that the condition is psychologically-caused.
As a patient community, we are rightly upset and angry about the poor treatment ME/CFS gets from the medical profession; but primary care doctors are only the foot soldiers of the medical profession, and not the root cause of this problem.
The fault lies in the corruption of the higher levels of medical care management hierarchy. As we saw recently when NICE in the UK still tried to sneak in GET and CBT as official treatments for ME/CFS. You will always find some people in top management positions who are corrupted by money they receive from their insurance company paymasters.
Symptoma by the way is an exception to the rule regarding the quality and accuracy of computer diagnosis.
This study says:
Every seventh diagnosis is a misdiagnosis. Each year, 1.5 million lives could be saved worldwide with the correct diagnosis. Physicians have to consider over 20,000 diseases.
A study from Harvard University published in 2015 tested 19 symptom checkers and found them to be insufficient, with only 29-71% accuracy in diagnosis.
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Most of the new symptom checkers demonstrated diagnostic accuracy rates within the previously established range, with the exception of Symptoma, which scored the right diagnosis in 82.2% of cases at the top of the list
So this is saying Symptoma gets the diagnosis right 82% of the time (the actual disease you have is placed at the top of Symptoma's list of suggestions 82% of the time).
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