If hospitals become overreliant on automated systems, they become especially vulnerable to outages and technical errors, which dramatically increase costs and productivity.

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Con: The best solution to this problem is likely further automation, enabling the system to identify and solve its own potential glitches.

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Pro: During blackouts or natural disasters, human doctors are at least able to to ensure that some particularly vulnerable patients are cared for. Automated systems will be entirely nonfunctional.

Should human doctors be replaced by automated ones?

If hospitals become overreliant on automated systems, they become especially vulnerable to outages and technical errors, which dramatically increase costs and productivity.

Pros

Cons

During blackouts or natural disasters, human doctors are at least able to to ensure that some particularly vulnerable patients are cared for. Automated systems will be entirely nonfunctional.

The best solution to this problem is likely further automation, enabling the system to identify and solve its own potential glitches.

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If hospitals become overreliant on automated systems, they become especially vulnerable to outages and technical errors, which dramatically increase costs and productivity.

Pro claim 1

During blackouts or natural disasters, human doctors are at least able to to ensure that some particularly vulnerable patients are cared for. Automated systems will be entirely nonfunctional.

Con claim 1

The best solution to this problem is likely further automation, enabling the system to identify and solve its own potential glitches.