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I'm skeptical... But it depends what data sources are available. I was a paramedic so my medical knowledge is limited, but at the same time, we frequently had to do field diagnosis. It's hard to explain... but you can have patients with the same symptoms and two totally different diagnoses. You basically just learn to intuit the difference but none of the stuff we can write down or quantify drives the differential diagnosis. And it's funny because you get pretty good at it. I could just tell when an elderly patient had a UTI even though they had a whole cluster of weird symptoms. Or more importantly, I could tell you when someone was just a psych case despite complaining of symptoms matching some other condition with great accuracy.

It'd be really hard to train a computer when to stop digging because there's nothing find, or when to keep digging because this patient really doesn't feel like a psych case. And the tests and doagnostics aren't without risk and cost.

I've had a greybeard doctor in my personal life that somehow read between the lines and nailed a diagnosis despite my primary symptoms being something else entirely. (I had recurring strep tonsilitis for months and yet he just somehow knew to step back and order a mono test. It came back negative the first time, and he knew to have me tested AGAIN, and lo and behold it was positive.) None of symptoms were really consistent with mono. I tested positive for strep each time and antibiotics would clear it.). Thankfully I happen to be allergic to the first line antibiotic because if you give amoxicillin to someone with mono they'll get a horrible rash all over their body in like 90% of people.