Leaving aside the well-known dumpster fire of the healthcare system's operational incompetence, none of these are particularly novel, most of them are the autho

Leaving aside the well-known dumpster fire of the healthcare system's operational incompetence, none of these are particularly novel, most of them are the author discovering basic best practices in statistics, and they don't come close to implying "DL for EMR is doomed". A health outcome is correlated with age? Ya don't say.... This is only a problem that literally every single economist and sociologist checks for _first_. Agents in causal graphs respond to their inputs? Shocker, that's only.... The definition of an agent. There are a ton of applications out there where a fairly naive model built by someone who took a Pytorch Coursera course can provide decent improvements. Healthcare is not one of them, and nobody serious ever thought it was. Bringing modern learning tools into healthcare is going to require a lot of smart people who know what they're doing, working cautiously to introduce these improvements into an operational quagmire with high stakes. But this article reads like: "I tried making healthcare 'smart' in a Jupyter notebook over a weekend and it didn't work: the effort is doomed".