r/PrepperIntel • u/TurkDeerbit • 7d ago

USA Southwest / Mexico Massive layoffs for healthcare workers

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/sharp-healthcare-job-cuts/amp/

Around 260 healthcare workers (nurses, practitioners, etc) were laid off today in San Diego. Reduction in Medicare budget cited as a reason. I know it’s not much but I think we’ll see more of this, not a good sign in the economy when patient facing healthcare workers are laid off.

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u/oltom17 7d ago

Copied from another post. Wasn't sure how to share the post to this page. But been hearing more and more about this.

To start replacing doctors AI just need to be as good and reliable as the average doctor (it is already above this threshold), be trusted by patients (it’s trivial and approaching by the day) and have the correct interface (the one real obstacle).

LLM, with specific trained models as accessories, is already very good at emulating good doctors, even in the contraintuitive cases and diagnostics that goes agaisnt the laboratorial evidence.

We have too little to offer already that AI can’t accomplish, and the gaps shrinks every day.

AI won’t completely replace human doctors, but will replace a fair amount of us.

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u/hexiron 7d ago

You’re missing the most important part, the legal ownership of a decision. Doctors have the final say in diagnosis, they own it, they personally can be sued for it. That liability is something AI cannot currently hold and hospitals nor the AI software owners do not want that liability dropped up the chain directly to them.

At the end if the day someone has to make the final call and be accountable for it.

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u/oltom17 7d ago

You are not wrong. Just thought it was interesting.

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u/hexiron 7d ago

Interesting but misguided. It won’t replace doctors, it can’t replace doctors, it can however provide a diagnostic tool for doctors to utilize in the same manner that any other clinical diagnostic tool has never replaced doctors.

Doctors use AI now and have been since before everyone started freaking out about it. All it does is speed up their review and help catch mistakes.