> there wouldn't be any point in the pharma companies sending out salespeople to do lunch seminars to convince the GPs to prescribe this or that drug Right, bu

> there wouldn't be any point in the pharma companies sending out salespeople to do lunch seminars to convince the GPs to prescribe this or that drug Right, but there would be a lot of point in making deals with whoever builds Watson-like devices, to turn them ever-so-slightly more likely to prescribe one drug over another or make one diagnosis over another. It might even be cheaper than hiring and sending out a bunch of salespeople.