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by joe_the_user 1839 days ago
The thing about Health Care is most efforts to automate it have failed. Arguably that's because no one "understands" the field, in the sense that no one can give, codified summary of the way they operate; each professional who's part of a health care pipeline takes into account twenty different common variabilities in human body/health/behavior/etc.

It's similar to the situation of self-driving cars, where the ability to do the ordinary task is overwhelmed by the existence of many, many corner cases that can't be easily trained-for. Except in health care, corner cases are much more common. Just seeking health care is an exceptional relative to something in ordinary life.