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by DigDugDude 1316 days ago
I appreciate your frustration as a patient. Myself, I am both a patient and a clinician.

I do think you're missing some things about the way things work "behind the curtain", and I was hoping to offer some insight.

I'm not an expert in medical education, but insofar as it is similar to nursing education, a good one is actually taught from "first principles" of anatomy, physiology, chemistry,physics, etc etc, and you diagnose from there with the assistance of heuristics.

To the extent that medical education is qualitative, that is because human beings experience things in very qualitative ways. You're treating patients and not fixing servers.

Hope this helps. Doing medicine is extremely hard, and automating it is an equally difficult task.

You won't have an argument from me about difficult to use EMR systems.