| ▲ | Paracompact 4 hours ago | |
It's not the same doctors saying they themselves are simultaneously smart and stupid. It's "smart" doctors saying that as a point of policy, it is not a good idea for biomedical companies to try to make a buck off of popularizing unnecessary diagnostics, because anxious patients will by chance or by intention find a "dumb" doctor who will agree to perform invasive procedures. (Have you ever heard a tech person say that the tech world has a lot of stupid ideas? It's the same thing.) Look up what happened with South Korea diagnosis vs. mortality rates when they instituted national thyroid screenings in the 90s. > Every system that exists as a black box is more understandable with more sensing, not less. With perfect humans in a perfect society, maybe. But such is ignoring the elephants in the room here, from the actual experts on the topic. | ||