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To be clear, I was not meaning to blame and sincerely apologize that my comment may have come across that way. Your comment was very helpful in conveying why, ceteris peribus, the perception of doctors may be diminishing. They are too overworked to excel beyond the standard of care, and even consistently meeting the standard of care is a tall order.

But that’s what I was trying to suggest by saying that it seems the medical field, as a whole, seems to be optimizing for the wrong thing, viz. quantity over quality. As others note, there are clearly economic forces at play, and maybe too much constraint on the supply side. And it’s not clear to me that any reasonable discussion is occurring with respect to that. And so I reiterate my pessimism that we’ll somehow get from where we at currently, to a brighter future brought about by a kuhnian revolution as hinted at in the original article. We need to fix what’s broken before adding new features, to put it in software terms.