When I watch medical professionals at work, a lot of the time they are writing or typing, reading or shuffling through notes, talking to others or waiting for results from some lab down the hall. Or any number of things that to me look like crappy admin tasks.

I'm sure they aren't all, but friends who work in the hospital tell tales of woeful inefficiencies and pointless beauracracy. Of course YMMV and this is a public health system.

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pezezin 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

This was also a public health system (Spain), but I guess it might depend on the country.

Now that you mentions labs, he spent the last 10 years of his career (maybe more, I don't remember clearly) working at a food analysis lab and there was a lot of waiting for results there, but it is what it is, microorganisms take their time to grow and no LLM in the world can make them go faster.

	▲	busyant 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> no LLM in the world can make them go faster You mean the microbes have to double n-times (to get sufficient numbers of microbes) before tests can be run on them. But maybe the LLMs figure out a way to run those tests on microbes that have only doubled 0.1(n-times). You could then think of the LLMs as being a more honest version of Elizabeth Holmes.
	▲	noisy_boy 7 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> microorganisms take their time to grow and no LLM in the world can make them go faster Rate limited by biology. Love that.