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by et2o 2620 days ago
Ultrasound is actually something that requires training and The imaging quality is very operator dependent. This physician is definitely reading the scans himself and acting upon them; uploading might just be for some kind of confirmation and formal quantification.

You can't just hand someone a probe and expect them to produce meaningful images. Especially in this kind of context where presumably they are getting used in dozens of different contexts; it really does require some medical reasoning and anatomical knowledge.