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Often, people already know the answers. They just long for regular reassurance.
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ChatGPT behaves the way this writer, who is a doctor, wished modern medicine and its practitioners would.
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Helen Ouyang
Several months ago, I got the results back from some routine blood tests, and let’s just say several numbers were a tad too high. My doctor advised “continued diet and exercise” and signed off on the results.
For the past couple of years, though, my numbers had been inching up, and I was frustrated that I couldn’t seem to do much about them. I requested a phone call from my doctor – surely, she had better advice than what she wrote – but she messaged back that if I wanted to discuss my results, I had to set up another appointment.
