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What might it take to create medical hackspaces?

• buboard 7y ago
  medicine is about to undergo major transformations, not only because of new tools and ML, but there just aren't enough doctors for an aging planet hackspaces may work if automated diagnosis proves decent for most common ailments, and doctors will have to become a lot more specialized in difficult cases
• autoexec 7y ago
  For regular folks? There are online places where people talk about their issues, exchange information, even hack their medical devices, but the thin line between a community of interested parties helping each other out with their health concerns and practicing medicine without a license will make it risky for spaces set up to do more than very general education. The liability issues alone would make me hesitate.
  • faissaloo 7y ago
    Yeah, I wonder what it would take to get something like that going. It'd be risky for sure, but it's still interesting to consider.