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by ska 3767 days ago
Having watched a fair bit of this from the sidelines, I suspect we are heading into a bit of an existential crisis in medical training and clinical practice, because our ability to generate potentially meaningful data is already outstripping the time and ability to analyse it (and train for that). The difference is accelerating.

Of course this doesn't mean that your putative attendings diagnostic skills are any worse - just that they are going to be more and more likely to miss things that actually were inferable from the data, when the case is not simple. At least, without a possibly profound change in practice and training.