Three Main Types of Intelligence. The Two Top Pros Mostly only have One.

You can have a great memory or you can have great analytical skills or you can have both. The average doctor and lawyer gets by with just the first (memory). These two professionals study for years on end and they memorize and are tested for their 'intelligence' just like a London cabby: what data have you memorized? The engineer and other scientific professionals are expected to be able to analyze data and situations and come up with truth. Neither the doctor nor the lawyer have great analytical skills; relying, instead on a vast storehouse of protocols and prior law. Only the medical doctor with a PhD is capable of thinking outside the box. Just look at how progress has fared in the era of the coronavirus, "It's a new virus, we just don't know. We need to wait until those with good analytical skills tell us." My God, how long did it take them to prescribe dexamethasone to the severely ill patient? Even I, a lowly biologist when it comes to human health, have resorted to inhaling anti-inflammatory substances just to ward off a cytokine storm. I can't prescribe dexamethasone because the FDA is made up of protocol-loving MD's protecting their colleagues' status quo.

It is because of this limited intelligence that I think healthcare can be improved enormously by artificial intelligence (the lawyer relies on oratory and other social skills and his knowledge probably cannot be digitized for the present).

There are doctors who possess what is called a 'clinical' eye--he/she just looks at the patient and can diagnose 'on the fly.' But these are a rarity in my experience. Most require tests to tell them what's wrong. There is no reason why A.I. cannot be given symptoms that will enable it to ask for the pertinent tests that will enable it to diagnose AND prescribe appropriately.

This is all obvious to anyone with half a brain--including those in legislatures--but their political bent prevents them from changing the paradigm. Anyone would have difficulty if you went against the MD's status quo and then found yourself in need of their services for, as humans, we are all well-aware of how vindictive any of us could be with a threatened status quo. Nevertheless, it is inconceivable to me that an MD would not welcome an A.I. program that enabled them to be more efficient and protected them against lawsuits (because the A.I. program would take the blame). You enter symptoms, the A.I. orders tests and provides a diagnosis. Eventually, through attrition, we'd have other health professionals taking over (pharmacists and nurses, for example) and the present MD's can ride quietly into the night. Of course, the surgeon would remain--probably indefinitely but with A.I. assist. [read more about it in my blog post "A Socialist's Healthcare Manifesto." https://grey-materialization.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-socialist-healthcare-manifesto.html]

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