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by slowmovintarget 772 days ago
Step 3.5 Doctor rewrites analysis to go with whatever the AI spits out because:

* Too busy (assumptions were made that patient load could increase with ML support)

* Too scared of being sued even if the doctor disagrees

* Too scared of being fired because the doctor keeps overriding the "cost effective" ML verdicts

We've seen this play out over and over in the medical field. I've watched my Primary Care physician go from angst over patient outcomes to angst over statistical outcomes for his department. It took 15 years, but the system got him.