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The OP has got something right and something wrong. Yes replacing all of healthcare with machines is not possible today. But we know that in order to capture the full benefits of a technology, usually a new business needs to be started, because old businesses are resistant to changes. That's true inside and outside of healthcare.

And about the role of doctors: Pilots do also have huge responsibility. Part of them being responsible is being able to defer themselves to checklists, to algorithms and to machines when needed, which is practically always in their profession.

Doctors resist that need. They resist checklists. They resist expert systems. They resist evidence based medicine(why else is evidence based medicine so slow ?).

How would healthcare looks if our the people who treated us stopped resisting to those factors?



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