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Should human doctors be replaced by automated ones?
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Selected claim, supporting its parent
AI can make more accurate diagnoses and prescriptions by quickly analyzing a patient's medical record and relating it to large databases with laboratory, genetic, and demographic information.
Pros
Cons
Pro claim 1, children below
Using predictive models, AI can use this data to successfully diagnose patients with certain ailments before they even begin showing symptoms.
Pro claim 2
Some ailments, like asthma, have several potential treatments, but it may be difficult for doctors to identify which will work best for a specific patient.
Pro claim 3
AI systems have a signficantly
higher probability
of correctly diagnosing patients compared to human doctors.
Con claim 1
Medical AI systems are liable to draw
incorrect conclusions
from raw data it receives, as it often does not take into consideration the assumptions that clinicians use.