A word on “dosing” medications
I had an experience with ChatGPT the other day which pointed up something really dangerous. And it happened several times over the last month so I thought I’d mention it.
I use “doses” all the time. An example is the dosage of Amikacin in ornamental fish. Metronidazole for Giardia in dogs. The dosage for Helicobacteria in humans. And in each of those examples I remembered a dose (not exactly) from specific research papers I read by specific authorities. Divers, Lewbart, etc.
Why the detail?
I asked ChatGPT what was the dose of Amikacin in ornamental carp?
The answer was ridiculously high. Dangerously so.
I said “That answer controverts what was written by Divers last year.” (Still fishing for the recent specific dosage results.)
ChatGPT says “You’re right thank you for catching that, in a paper written by….” and straightened it out.
A grave warning about ChatGPT stating things as “fact” with all the confidence in the world.
Please don’t get me wrong, ChatGPT will most definitely replace veterinarians in the future, breaking the profession into ‘shot-slingers’ and ‘test runners’ with almost no one in between (You can thank franchise / corporate medicine for that!) [Thanks Justic Tilzer you really made your little pot of gold into a disaster for the public at large]
POINT of my ramble: When using ChatGPT and you should; just be leery and skeptical of life-impacting things like dosages. You can say “That’s wrong, please look again” and see if it agrees with itself or changes it’s story. Very disconcerting.
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