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by siculars 4860 days ago
"...make everyone of us a doctor..."

That's a very, very bad idea. Should we educate people about their medical problems in a simple and smart way? Yes. Should we delude people into thinking they are doctors? Absolutely not.

"IANAL" is one thing but there aren't enough asterisks in your keyboard to save you from that bottomless pit of liability.

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I tend to agree in general. And expecting advice over an internet forum is ridiculous in the best of all worlds.

But frankly, you don't need a high school diploma + a Bachelor's + med school + residency in order capture a huge fraction of a Real Doctor's value as a classifier. Machine-learning-derived classifiers can do even better. This is where there are huge gains to be made.

Every time where cutting out the BS actually matters (pun intended), TPTB "discover" that you can churn out functionally-equivalent doctors with significantly less training. See: military training of doctors, WWII. If you suggested turning away people from doctor training back then because they didn't have a 4-year degree already, they'd laugh or have you committed.