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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In recent years, patients's main complaint is lack of empathy among physicians. Its not that worse humans are becoming physicians but its because people see it as a lucrative future and try to get in but they end up spending so much time, money and efforts to finally earn as an attending physician that afterwards their main focus is on return on that investment than anything else. Lots of physicians are there to support an extravagant lifestyle.[/quote]

As AI/robotics cover more of the medical information, empathy and clinical judgment (e.g., reasoning about medical information in single contextualized cases) will continue to matter more.[/quote]

AI will never replace human judgment.

I don't want a doctor who is "really caring", I want one who knows biology, anatomy, biochemistry, etc.

If you want empathy call a priest. If you want your ailment cured, call a doctor.[/quote]

If you noted I put "clinical judgment" along with empathy which involves knowing those things--but it's not the MD school of the past which was a lot of memorization and sometimes not the deepest scientific knowledge, to be honest.  Fortunately this means MD can emphasize deeper scientific knowledge and reasoning with bio-chem-physics as applies to medical issues they encounter. Undergraduate science outside of the pre-med requirements (which are hefty and are often the hardest courses of the majors) is not that relevant to the MD--and it could be better spent laying the groundwork for the human side of medicine.  [/quote]

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