It's funny that so many resources have been put into training Watson... far more than would ever go into training a medical student... It has access to medical

It's funny that so many resources have been put into training Watson... far more than would ever go into training a medical student... It has access to medical evidence that is stuck behind pay walls otherwise... it has access to case histories that another clinician learning oncology could never access... Because of this, in some ways it's irrelevant to compare Watson to the old way of doing things... Of course it's better! It's a great development in technology... maybe in the end this is the only solution to the general disillusionment with doctors... it's too difficult and inefficient and failure prone to train warm bodies with their own personalities to do medicine. Watson and its ilk are an alternative with a better return on investment, and improving them is therefore easier to incentivize. A (closed source) triumph for technology... but a failure for education and academia...