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> Call me crazy but doctors are over paid and given too much status in American society. That's insane. You can google symptoms, but you can't google context.
by briandear 7y ago
> Call me crazy but doctors are over paid and given too much status in American society.
That's insane. You can google symptoms, but you can't google context. Doctors are paid to interpret not to regurgitate. As an example, let's talk airline pilots as an example, Air France Flight 447, the crash of an A330 over the Atlantic. The computers were giving incorrect airspeed readings because of frozen pitot tubes. The pilots, reacting based on the computers, ended up stalling the airplane. The computer gave erroneous information, the pilots (trained to fly the "Airbus way" -- i.e. the airplane knows more than you do,) reacted exactly as the computers told them to react.
The "doctoring by computer" concept, while can be beneficial, can't replace the judgement of a human, just like highly automated flight decks, can't replace the skill of experienced pilots.
Google also is a search engine. It only surfaces results that "rank" -- not necessarily results that are correct. And certainly not results that are necessarily correct for the specific combination of circumstances.