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> My mom worked for a GP for about 20 years, and it seemed to me that most of what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of t
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> My mom worked for a GP for about 20 years, and it seemed to me that most of what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things.
That’s exactly right, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
A good doctor’s memory of patients spanning decades of a career and all of the various treatments that they did or did not respond to is very valuable. It’s a good thing that they offload as much as possible to other people so they can focus on doing what they do best.
- geofft 5y agoI think the comment above, most charitably read, is that a lot more people would have access to high-quality healthcare if you could put this work on robots instead of people, because computers excel at storing data and looking it up accurately and following predetermined rules. There would be fewer cases of people going to their doctor and being told "oh, it's nothing" when it actually is a specific, rare, and urgent problem. And then they would end up going to a human specialist to figure out how to fix that problem.