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> "Piloting a passenger plane should be easy" > "Performing brain surgery should be easy" > None of that should be easy. Why shouldn't those things be easy?

• Mo3 4y ago
  Because anyone trying to perform brain surgery still needs to have phenomenal understanding of the (brain) matter at hand. Sure, super-accurate robots to do the cuts and whatever are really cool, but I'd reckon they still have to be operated by someone who knows what to do.....
• SkipperCat 4y ago
  If surgery was made "easy" then it would be a one size fits all and anyone with an outlier condition would not get medical care. We train doctors to have a very deep knowledge of their discipline because when they do encounter that edge case, they need to know immediately what to do. Medical care is sometimes extremely time sensitive and you don't want the doc to have to ask his superior how to stop your bleeding.
  • petersellers 4y ago
    > If surgery was made "easy" then it would be a one size fits all and anyone with an outlier condition would not get medical care. On the contrary, I think it would be a lot easier to treat an outlier condition because doctors would have a lot more time to expand their skills and study uncommon conditions.
  • vosper 4y ago
    > If surgery was made "easy" then it would be a one size fits all and anyone with an outlier condition would not get medical care. Why would that necessarily be the case? Why wouldn't we train doctors to still know what to do, and also make it a lot easier to do it well?
    • Mo3 4y ago
      .. we are.