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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by Cthulhu_ on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:36AM (#15788088)
Like how webmd is making doctors unnecessary? Doubtful. At best they ( / we ) will get better diagnostics tools, but that won't reduce demand for people in the job.
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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by Consultant32452 on Monday November 27, 2017 @11:06AM (#15788349)
It will be interesting to see the AMA and IBM's Watson duke it out as Watson (or similar AI) makes diagnostic knowledge a waste of human capital. I suspect in 10 years or less we'll just need an empathetic person to deliver us bad news who has the bare minimum medical knowledge to strap on whatever test apparatus properly.
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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by emodendroket on Monday November 27, 2017 @11:11AM (#15788384)
That assumes a state of medical knowledge that is, I think, more advanced than the one we have in reality.
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