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How is AI going to replace doctors?


What's a doctor anyway?

You go to 90% of doctors, you plug in your symptoms, they get to ask you questions based on your symptoms and vitals, possibly order tests and imaging and come up with a diagnosis based on those, using data from their university days and medical cases so far.

AI would be hundreds of times better than any doctor, since it'll base its diagnosis on thousands of years of collective medical cases and texts, instead of the couple of decades that individual doctors can muster up.

There's still the surgery part of it, where some doctors stick for a while, but surgery robots have been getting really good at that too, they'll likely be the first robots to put humans out of jobs.


Is AI going to physically check your breathing, check diabetics skin and feet, do surgery, robots are nowhere near good enough to do complex surgery.


Yeah, hence the nurse part and i already addressed surgeons


I’ve had one surgery in my life - a triple arthrodesis in 1996.

It’s where the doctor goes in a breaks the bones in your foot and resets it.

Here is the description of it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551713/

Would you trust a robot to do that?

Have you known anyone who had to deal with diabetes? That’s the only major, constant care I know about from relatives besides more minor things like eye surgery.




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