RE: Doctor + AI is fine with me. One can check the other.
The danger comes when a hospital puts a higher value on the abilities of the machine than a nurse’s or doctor’s experience and critical thinking skills.
Experience, after even 5-10 years in nursing as an example, provides more value than an algorithm that lacks a human component. The other danger is that younger nurses may learn to lean on AI as opposed to evaluating the situation themselves. As with any tool, it is great to have, but AI cannot have a higher priority than clinical judgment.
Sometimes I wish these doctors and nurses would apply the same valued judgement to their political conclusions.
> The danger comes when a hospital puts a higher value on the abilities of the machine than a nurse’s or doctor’s experience and critical thinking skills.
Yep, I’d say within the next decade or two that doctors and nurses will have to take extraordinary measures to contradict whatever the machines tell them to do. Hospitals these days are all about the dollars and will NOT take on the liability of trusting a doctor when they can rely upon the AI.