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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ohh come on - your major doesn't matter.

Learn something, anything, and hopefully college develops our kids' minds and helps them be flexible and new thinkers.

How many of you are working in the field related to your college major? Not me....[/quote]

I would say if you are considering pre-med and medical school...perhaps you need to think again as current freshmen will essentially become doctors in 10 years.[/quote]

I don't follow your point - sorry to be dense -- does AI impact pre-med path?[/quote]

Random example: AI can review images and find cancer in a tiny faction of the time as human radiologists. And with far better accuracy.

So future radiologists who would primarily work behind the scenes reviewing images will be out of work. There will always be a need for human review and contact with patients, but even that will be less time consuming as AI finds more patterns and the process becomes even more simplified (and accurate) leaving less room for human discretion.

So society will still need some human radiologists. But not as many. Now multiply that across specialties and you’ll see how much the medical profession will  be transformed in the next 5-10 years.

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I assume you are not a radiologist nor work in AI specific radiology technology directly to make this statement.  There has been some information/research regarding this, but for those entrenched in AI for radiology, this isn't a true statement.  AI will have impact and serve as a relevant tool, for certain, but it will affect other medical fields before it touches radiology in the significant way you had stated.  This specialty is not going away anytime soon.[/quote]

But won't AI reduce the need for the number of radiologists on staff?  Intuitively, would you not have AI just perform the first determination and then you have one (or two or three) human that needs to confirm all the diagnoses?  I would think you could significantly increase the productivity of each radiologist to the point that you need fewer.

Just curious what we are missing in this reasoning.
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