Diagnostic radiologist, opinion haver, runner. Health policy, economics, law and finance.
Durham, NC
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Alex D. Bibbey, MD retweeted
100% agree.
Forget radiology and medical specialties for a second. Look at general AI progress and the pattern is pretty obvious:
-Math, coding, and anything language-related (text-based): Supra-human and broadly general.
-General image recognition tasks (image-based): below humans on benchmarks such as ZeroBench, BabyVision. Not generalized.
-Self-driving (image-based/perception): suprahuman in limited common settings, but fails at edge cases.
-General everyday tasks such as folding laundry, cleaning your room, taking out the trash, etc (image-based/perception): well below humans and not generalized.
No doubt computer vision will get better, and those at frontier labs may devise clever tools to achieve human-level general vision.
But on a relative scale, right now AI is clearly better at text/language than it is at vision.
This has big implications for medical specialties, and well as white/blue collar work.
In this sense, radiology is actually more of a "blue-collar" type of work.
Maybe you’ve missed the last four years: frontier AI has progressed much faster in language than in vision, particularly in complex visual reasoning.
If that trend continues, full automation of radiology could come well after the automation of most language-based cognitive work.
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Alex D. Bibbey, MD retweeted
If Democrats win next week’s election, their agenda is clear: to go after the President, his family, and his administration.
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Trump Phone Durability Test - Its worse than we thought...
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can’t even be bothered to find out what the $12.99 is from apple anymore
whatever bro just take it I got a lot going on
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Alex D. Bibbey, MD retweeted
Oh they gave you a pike? Yeah man that’s cool. Cool. Oh this? Yeah it’s my halberd. They decided I was halberd material I guess. But hey pikes are cool! You pike guys are the foundation you know?
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Again, this is not true. Contrary to public misperception the final reader on every scan performed in the US is a US licensed and US board certified radiologist (uncommonly, preliminary afterhours reads in some hospitals are done overseas)
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Literally none of this is true.
1. Cancer staging scans are not being sent to India to be read - in general you cannot bill for reads performed outside the US
2. Scans cannot be read independently by AI
3. Hospitals are typically open on the weekend
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This happened because a radiologist is working their ass off to get cancer scans read at 11 pm on a Friday before the weekend and it is Federal law that results are immediately available to the patient in the electronic record
Healthcare is the only industry that drops your cancer scan results into an app at 11 PM on a Friday, then closes for the weekend.
No call. No context. Just a PDF full of words like "suspicious" and "cannot be excluded" and a little banner that says "Sleep well!"
Meanwhile billing found me in 4 hours 😐
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Alex D. Bibbey, MD retweeted
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
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Alex D. Bibbey, MD retweeted
Making a call-out post about my cat.
During my virtual therapy, he climbed up onto my chest, face so close his nose was touching my lips, and this guy sneezes into my open mouth as I'm talking. He is unsanitary and doesn't respect personal space.
Cancelled and stinky
ALT an image of a black cat with gold eyes looking straight into the camera. he is laying on my chest as I lay on the couch. the background is blurry but shows a large window letting in daylight.
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Alex D. Bibbey, MD retweeted
I will never understand or comprehend the 8am double Woodford Reserve before takeoff guy.
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fucked up in the crib drinking healthy beverage #2
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This is actually the NASCAR Facebook Apocalypse. Imagine if he wins Talladega in this. I’m crying man
#NASCAR... Kroger Health and Nuvaxovid (COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted) will sponsor Bubba Wallace and the No. 23 Toyota Camry XSE this weekend at Talladega.
📸: NASCAR Paint Scheme Preview
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Our brand new album 'All The King's Men' will be released 22 January — and we're going back on tour.
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Trump says that if Republicans lose in North Carolina he will use the power of his office to deny US Marine Corps veterans’ claims for medical treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases resulting from decades of water contamination by toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune
Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
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