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by beeflet 250 days ago
Do we really need "good" doctors all of the time? I think the industry is overregulated to restrict the supply of healthcare.
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Isn't that gap being filled nowadays with roles like nurse practitioners?
The optimal amount of bad doctors is not zero. But there is a point of "ChatGPT does a better job than this man does, and we're talking GPT-4o, not GPT-5 Pro". In which case we have a problem.
When a simple easy to make mistake will kill me, I'm pretty sure I want to have a good doctor all the time.