[i_am_toaster]

Just to be clear on this point — you think that the healthcare industry optimizes for inefficiency?

Edit: After looking at your post history, I realize you just want to tell people they are wrong and you are smarter than them. Don’t bother responding, I don’t care what you have to say.

[naijaboiler]

yes tech people are often ill-informed about medical world. And i do end up posting a lot on topics where such gross misinformation is on full display. I read tons and tons of posts on here, I respond to a very tiny few. And I stay away from commenting on areas outside of my competence. And yes, the ones I comment on are predominantly, ones where people with incomplete (or totally absent) perspective of a field that's outside their area, feel overly confident enough to comment on those areas. So many of my posts is indeed calling out the naivety of such posts.

It's only an "inefficiency" from the perspective of the person who doesn't understand what the system is optimizing for. This author is ML engineer commenting on a field he is relatively new to and doesn't yet fully understand. To a person wanting to drive highway speeds in a crowded downtown street, everything would seem 'inefficient'. In reality, they aren't. The objectives are just different. Once you understand the larger objective, you start seeing what the true problems are, you start understanding that some things that look like inefficiencies at first glance, are actually features serving a purpose within a larger context, that you initially didn't understand.

[tsol]

As someone fairly familiar with the medical world-- IME HN is generally very far off the mark about medical related issues. They don't understand that regulations in this industry are written in blood, and they often fail to realize how incredibly complex these problems are. Another issue is people also need to be able to trust healthcare-- if people felt the way they do about Facebook towards makers of antibiotics we'd have a huge issue(moreso than we already do with the current number of medicine skeptics). The Doctors running these trials can't afford to make these mistake, nor do they want to considering they generally do have a lot of face to face time with their 'customers' unlike in tech.

[naijaboiler]

Thank you for explaining what I am trying to say. Reading comments on HN on anything medical (or how they can use tech to improve medicine), I just have to continue shaking my head at the ignorant hubris on display, and the confidence with they are said. There's a reason all the big boys in tech who have tried making incursions into health industry have left with their tails tucked despite their considerable talent and money. The tech world attitude and ethos can not work in the medical world.