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Re:Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as ... by kensai on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:29PM (#13485702)
Social skills. You still need them, patients still demand them. I am a physician myself and can assure you I think my profession will go the way of the dodo in the next 50 years, starting with surgeons and going on to conservative diagnostics/therapy. The only reason it is not happening immediately is patients still (and for the foreseeable future) demand and expect the physician to be a human as well: showing empathy and bonding the so called "therapeutic alliance" with them.

As soon as AI manages to show that capabilities, it's the end. Algorithms are much more accurate in combining all the available biomedical information needed to decide for diagnosis and therapy.

Re:Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as ... by digler999 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:23PM (#13486829)
but doesn't radiology specifically have the reputation for being the "unsung heroes" or at least the unsung among physicians ? with the exception of interventional radiology I thought they hardly ever interacted with pts ?
Re:Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as ... by kensai on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:49PM (#13487779)
Indeed. My comment was more general in nature. Specialisations of medicine that have less direct interaction will be the first to be automated. Laboratory ones are pretty much already.