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by mandevil 370 days ago
This is what my wife (a hospital pharmacist) thinks too. She has developed her medical intuition on thousands of patients, through education, rotations, residency, years of working, etc. And most patients are straightforward and easy. But it is those easy cases that build the judgement skills necessary to make her so fast and effective when she gets to the hard cases.

Maybe an AI would be better on the easy cases- slightly faster and cheaper. But it would mean that she would never develop the skills to tackle the problems that AI has no idea how to handle.