[newbie12]

The same self-interested political forces that keep the number of doctors low are also fighting against automation.

[lifeisstillgood]

Oh that's just utter nonsense.

Automation (especially in diagnosis) is welcomed and supported by the medical profession.

Some vague idea of walking up to a kiosk and the computer telling you your condition and dispensing pills is opposed by everyone apart from the CEOs of kiosk makers