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Med school just seems like cheat mode now. I didn’t want to be a doctor because I was certain that computers would replace them. And they did. The work of docto
by jl2718 8y ago
Med school just seems like cheat mode now. I didn’t want to be a doctor because I was certain that computers would replace them. And they did. The work of doctors is 95% obsolete in the advent of better diagnostic tests and internet health information, with ‘AI’ taking the last scraps of relevance.
Doesn’t matter. Doctors are a government-protected class, with wages held high by regulation, insurance subsidies, and immigrant labor restrictions. This causes massive social problems, and cannot end soon enough.
It seems to me that the amount of work it takes to be a good systems programmer, over an entire career, absolutely dwarfs the demands of medicine. There are many coders in bioinformatics that are more competent at medicine than most MDs and get paid a fraction for much longer working hours. There are also MDs that do both, and consider the medicine part their well-paid hobby.
- dahdum 8y agoMDs are limited in quantity due to regulation, as you point out, but that also means the competition to become one is rather brutal. Long schooling, residency, work hours and then most specialities end up with only upper middle incomes. Doesn't sound like cheat mode at all to me. Hitting a boot camp and then pulling $100k+ doing web dev is the cheat.
- sincerely 8y ago>The work of doctors is 95% obsolete in the advent of better diagnostic tests and internet health information, with ‘AI’ taking the last scraps of relevance. This seems like a hugely strong claim. Could you elaborate?
- fjsolwmv 8y agoGPs don't make a ton of money anymore. Most are replaced by PAs. Specialists still have important skills. And all those bioinformatics and medical automation projects rely on MDs.