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A comment on The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment from 1980 to 2005 (2008). Parent comment

Re:The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment from 1980 ... by Eisenstein on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:48PM (#34191055)
A more efficient plow can increase agricultural yields and a machine that can automatically core apples will remove the need for people to core the apples -- is there an equivalent for medical diagnostics?
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Re:The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment from 1980 ... by toast0 on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:11PM (#34191235)
Better tests and more access to diagnostic tools helps medical productivity to some degree, although unnecessary testing pushes the other way. And sometimes better diagnostics leads to more interventions which may mean more labor (and sometimes better outcomes too)
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Re:The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment from 1980 ... by maxerickson on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:12PM (#34191242)
When it works, imaging (x-ray, CT, MRI, etc.) is ridiculously effective.

There's also stuff like figuring out that bacterial infections are a big contributing factor in ulcers. Once doctors believed it was true, interventions got a lot more effective.

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