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Re:Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system? by SoftTalker on Sunday October 22, 2023 @01:45PM (#37977480)
AI will hit medicine pretty hard, it seems to me. Everything about medicine that isn't research is mostly identifying symptoms and applying the correct "standard of care" which an AI should be very very good at.
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Re:Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system? by Retric on Sunday October 22, 2023 @02:40PM (#37977923)
We haven’t gotten rid of pharmacies and that’s the easiest part of medicine to We haven’t gotten rid of pharmacies and that’s the easiest part of medicine to automate.

I don’t think AI diagnosis is going to change costs noticeably because tests and treatment is so much more expensive and you need people to provide that.

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