Doc: "Do you have any other medical conditions besides your {red eye,stomach ache,itchy foot}?"
Patient: "No."
Doc: "Are you taking any meds?"
Patient: "Yes I am currently on chemotherapy for my cancer."
Doc: "Okay... so you have cancer?"
Patient: "Yes I have lung cancer."
They do. In my experience they're usually pleasantly surprised when you have dates and timelines rather than "oh I don't know, about a year ago?"
That being said the reaction differs if you offer a self diagnosis (assisted by google or chatgpt) rather than just symptoms. There will not be pleasantness. It's a toss up between a dismissive "yeah maybe" and "uh uh, did google tell you this?" Many doctors will 100% listen and consider what you say, but in my long life I've learned that offering a self diagnosis must be done very tactfully.
On one hand it's understandable, us as programmers don't enjoy having a nocoder arrive with "yeah so chatgpt says this is no good" and having to explain to them why they're wrong. On the other hand modern patients do their own research before consulting, so it's worth at least considering what's being said.
It does not always work, but a lot of doctors in my experience take some time to kindly explain why they think the other possibilities I'm concerned about are unlikely, and sometimes my questions actually prompt them to add some additional investigations.
You can do whatevvr you want with the audio files - have them transcribe them, summarize them, hand them to an agent, upload them to your cloud, whatever.
The standby and talk time is really great on both the pins and the credit card sized versions.
I have a lot of friends that now use them with elderly parents/their own medical care when they need to really be able to have something automatically record/transcribe the visits.
1. If you want something totally open source: https://github.com/RemiPelloux/OpenPlod
Local-first Plaud Note Pro recording vault, transcription, and Markdown workspace. Which sounds like what you want.
2. the Plaud SDK will let you pull from the device and send it wherever you want without touching their servers.
3. You can also use the mobile app, disable cloud sync, and export each audio file as mp3/wav to your phone/tablet/whatever if you don't want to use #1 or #2.
You can have it upload to your private cloud without doing any of these, but it still transits their servers first i believe, which it sounds like you are trying to avoid
In the USA, providers are openly hostile to being recorded. You had better ask at the front desk if you can record anything first. They will tell you no.
If you covertly record, then they have every right to refuse you service and eject you from the exam room.
Do not ever record anything independently with your provider. They are absolutely hostile to this and there is no getting around it.
They will tell you that it is a violation of HIPAA. It is actually a violation of CYA.
Providers do not appreciate having any independent record of one-on-ones that they cannot repudiate themselves. If they didn't document it, it didn't happen. Don't record providers.
This is done all the time, and is quite common, particularly when care is shared between multiple people or people are elderly
16% of all appointments are recorded by patients, and the number is increasing all the time. Only 3% covertly.
Basically all medical associations have issued guidance on this and the guidance is not "kick people out of the office"
I have never once had a provider become hostile or care. Nor has anyone I know. People record with phones, dial people in, etc.
This is across like 10+ states, tons of conditions, ages, and hundreds of people.
While you may have had a different experience, i dont' think i would go with "don't ever do this".
Maybe you have super-hostile relationships with your providers - nobody i know does.
They also do that if you show them pictures of your poop when you have a bowel thing going on.