Dont fucking use this. Let it lose money so it goes away. Amazon is awful enough and if this shit trend continues, Meta will get into healthcare too using posts, tracking cookies and purchases on the platform too.
AI doctors are probably going to be a thing whether we want them or not, one way or another in the near future. I don’t think it’ll be going away. https://health.google/health-research/
So basically this
In my opinion, I think that properly done AI assisted doctors are a good thing. Doctors have to keep track of so much stuff that is constantly changing, just to make a diagnosis. AI guidance can and will help.
Keyword being “properly” which is probably not going to be the case.
Can you tell me why?
Healthcare is already heavily corporatized in the US, this is just another worsening step.
Have you used this service? Can you tell me if it’s better or worse than other medical services available?
I haven’t yet.
A poster above has.
I don’t trust Amazon to shop with.
I expect it’s only a matter of time before there’s a huge HIPAA violation when we find out they’re using health info to sell us shit.
😂
The hate for Amazon is real here I guess.
“Well after reading your internet history, I diagnosed you with depression.”
-This session was sponcered by Gold Rope patented pre tied nooses.ugh. those are total garbage and break within a minute. Great for AEA though!
So if you can’t afford traditional insurance which is 100% a scam then why is this a bad alternative?
This isn’t a good alternative either. From reading the article it looks like this service is meant to screen less serious issues, and if those less serious issues need an in person doctor visit, you’ll need insurance.
The deeper problem is that if our personal data is gold, our medical data is diamonds. It may not be tomorrow, or a decade from now, but I guarantee any sort of contact non-medical corporations make with our medical data will result in a darker dystopia.
Targeted ads will be more invasive. Insurance premiums can be increased for “unhealthy” purchases. Medical coverage can be denied based on economic decisions. The list can go on. We would pretty much get a more perverse profit driven medical system if companies like Amazon start wiggling their way into medicine. Also regulations won’t keep us safe, you can thank lobbying for that.
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I think I’m going to stick with my local hospital network and pharmacy. I’m doubtful that my health problems can be solved by a company with a very poor reputation on worker safety and wellness.
"Could you please pee into a soda bottle and hand it to the nearest Amazon delivery driver? They’ll know how to handle it, don’t worry, we’ve been training them for years "
USA please get your shit together. That’s so dytopian my head hurts. And you are a vision of the future for all other countries. Thank god I’ll be dead by then.
I’ve known this was coming for a few years after the CEO of my previous mental health employer told us he wanted to grow the company large enough to compete with Amazon who were going to be entering the primary care and mental healthcare field. He also warned of Walmart following suit.
It was a hard pill to swallow and I hoped he was wrong, but here we are… It’s going to be a scary time if monopolies like Amazon and Walmart strangle out real providers and fuck up our healthcare industry even worse. We need these fuckers to have this fail spectacularly to preserve the industry.
its really tough seeing dystopian satire become the norm.
Right!?..
I have joked for years that we are living in a simulation and in 2016, they cranked up the satire and absurdity levels. Then in 2020, they cranked up the suffering factor, but left satire and absurdity turned up.
It has seriously felt like living in The Onion universe these last few years.
Totally! You already have it bad enough.
Sadly, the critical group will always be inferior to the ignorant or clueless. And hence could be ignored for decision-making. It won’t fail. Just throw enough moneyz to marketing and people would even buy your bath-water. Luckily Amazon doesn’t have that many moneyz. /s
yup when other countries politicians see how deep we will take it they want that for themselves.
Well, in the end, that’s the ironic part. The american dream of freedom. You really got it. Sadly noone ever asked if that freedom should be for companies too.
oh they did actually. its called citizens united and ruled that corporations are super citizens with all the benefits of a person but none of the disadvantages.
Wanna bet politicians will speedrun that shit, so just in time for us to die while suffering the effects! :D
What could go wrong?
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Giving Amazon your medical history… what could possibly go wrong.
Me on Amazon: I’ll buy some of these.
Amazon: according to your medical records we have decided that it is against your own health interest to purchase this product, so we cannot sell you this product, but here are some Amazon approved alternatives.
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For those not in the know, Amazon bought One Medical, they didn’t create it. I’ve been using it since before the purchase and it has been much much better than any past medical care I’ve recieved.
I really hope that Amazon doesn’t screw it up.
welp.
I can’t wait until every company out there knows that if I don’t have a certain product I die and jacks up the price for only me! I also can’t wait for my family to come over and see ads related to my very private diagnosis they know nothing about! I also can’t wait for potential cures to be blocked on my browsing profile because it’ll hinder Amazon’s profits!
