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It's only a problem if hospitals replace doctors with AI. If they employ AI as well then outcomes will improve. Using AI to find the ones AI can identify means doctors have more time to focus on the ones that AI can't find.

Of course, that's not what's going to happen. :/



> Using AI to find the ones AI can identify means doctors have more time to focus on the ones that AI can't find.

That's not how that would work in the real world. In a lot of places a doctor has to put their signature or stamp on a medical document, making them liable for what is on that paper. Just because the AI can do it, that doesn't mean the doctor won't have to double check it, which negates the time saved.

I would wager AI-assisted would be more helpful to reduce things doctors might miss instead of partially or completely replacing them.


Interesting. Do you see any versions of the future where use of AI could actually make the physician take more time?


Let's assume you program it so that if it believes with 95% certainty that a patient has a certain condition it will present it to the doctor. While the doctor doesn't agree with it, the whole process between doctor-patient-hospital-insurer might be automated to the point where it's simpler to put the patient through the motions of getting additional checks than the doctor fighting the wrong diagnosis, thus the doctor will have to spend more time to follow up on confirming that this condition is not really present.

I don't have a crystal ball, so this is a made-up scenario.




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