Medfag here. I'm trying to decide what speciality I should pursue. I'm really interested in radiology, but I'm concerned about the possibility of robots eventually taking over the job. Do you think this is a real possibility in our lifetime? IBM is already trying to teach Watson to read films...
doubt it. there is so much variation in human anatomy, ai won't be able to do it well enough, a human will still need to be involved to ensure it was analysed correctly.
Disclaimer: This is a US centric opinion.
I wouldn't choose radiology or pathology. Teleradiology is already a thing. Radiologists managed to get together and tell congress to make it illegal to outsource radiology to foreign countries. Radiology in general is still outsourced however, just to US companies.
The same thing is happening in pathology since you can feed slides into a machine that scans in the entire thing. Then you can electronically send the slide wherever you want. Grossing is done by PAs so you don't even have that.
The best job security is in things that are more clinical. If you're interested in radiology, go into interventional radiology. Most of your patients will be under anyway.
>>55469193
Jokes on you computers have already done it, better than humans no less. Problem is that it's still not cheaper than what I'm about to talk about.
OP should instead worry about radiology being taken over by indians or whatever- they send the scans to indians who shit out diagnosis and such and send that back.
>>55469350
This.
>>55469121
IBM spent a billion dollars buying a radiology company, they probably have millions of xrays they can feed into Watson along with diagnosis data. AIs can pool every result from every hospital and every doctor, having years of experience in the field will become irrelevant
The doctors I've heard from say radiology is a dead end.
