Yes this paper gave me flashbacks to Rivers for several reasons!

Congrats!

Either way or turns out, BICARICU2 will be v interesting!

but also caused some second order effects on workflows within the hospital. If a task is not being done by one person it has to be handed over and taken on by someone else, and that person is frequently the on call doctor who is quite busy already!

of the job. The 2016 junior doctors contract enshrined the principle of pay for all work done and introduced penalties for departments that made their juniors work longer than contracted hours alongside other safeguards. This has led to a reduction in juniors (now residents) working unpaid overtime,

Thanks for this very interesting perspective Sam. On the point I've highlighted here, what you write is true to some extent but differences in doctors working unpaid overtime are more about broad cultural changes in medicine. Prior to 2016 working unpaid overtime was the norm and was considered part

This is something I say a lot too. People (not the author) seem to think the only thing doctors do is diagnose. In reality, that's a tiny part of a modern doctor's job in the real world. A fancy AI offering diagnostic powers would help me only quite occasionally. Real life is not like House.

Many betting on even shorter time horizons than this. The 100 trillion dollar question is whether you get an AI agent that is reliable enough to be monetisable on a large scale before the bubble bursts

In US healthcare (as in the UK) you are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than you are to be behind one in the queue to get care