Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this in his 1952 novel, "Player Piano" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(no

Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this in his 1952 novel, "Player Piano" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel) which I read as a child. GB Shaw: "All professions are conspiracies against the laity." The examples given, lawyer and radiologist, achieve high income largely through artificially induced market scarcity by limiting entrants into these professions. Abraham Lincoln, one of the nation's greatest lawyers, never went to undergrad school, never went to law school. Today, in the US, to be a lawyer one has to attend 7 years of post-high school education (in Europe and Israel it is 3 years) at a cost of about $500,000 if attending private schools. For doing image recognition on mammograms, one has to attend 4 years of difficult pre-med, 4 years of difficult med school, 5 years of a hard to get into (eg artificial scarcity) radiology residency, and perhaps 2 years mammogram fellowship. Does it really take 13 or 15 years of post-high school education and training to be able to do image recognition of mammograms? In addition, there is a great deal of variation in results of radiology readings which machines will help to make more uniform.