ChatGPT's Impact on Healthcare and Medical Research

ChatGPT's Impact on Healthcare and Medical Research: Balancing Benefits and Risks

The doctor-patient relationship is built on tradition and ethics, but emerging technologies like ChatGPT could disrupt this relationship.

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ChatGPT is a language model that has been trained on massive volumes of internet texts and can perform various roles in healthcare and health research.

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Early adopters have started using ChatGPT to assist with mundane tasks like writing sick certificates and letters.

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ChatGPT could also assist in more serious medical activities such as triage and enrolling participants in clinical trials.

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However, using ChatGPT raises ethical concerns related to confidentiality, consent, quality of care, reliability, and inequity.

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Using ChatGPT could lead to unintended and unwelcome consequences, such as privacy breaches and disclosure of sensitive patient information to third parties.

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Consent to AI-assisted healthcare could be suboptimal, and medical practitioners and institutions may expose themselves to litigation.

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Using ChatGPT to generate evidence has the potential to accelerate research and scientific publications.

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And monetized access to advanced versions of this language chatbot could entrench the digital divide and global health inequalities.

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