>>10409129Pre-tax maybe, but not in take-home salary. It's convention where I come from to use post-tax salary - probably should have been more specific. My $400k figure was post-tax.
Even then, I think the use of 'many' is a bit liberal - as a percentage of all the specialties available, perhaps 4-5% might pay close to $500k pre-tax, and I doubt it's straight out of residency. Doctors have considerably higher overheads too.
>>10409132I think we need to be specific about the term 'diagnosis'. Software might be better at identifying the presence of, say, breast cancer, but that, in and of itself, is useless information. Saying 'you have breast cancer' isn't really a diagnosis. A more realistic and meaningful diagnosis provides a far more comprehensive insight for the patient and takes into account information which can't be reliably fed into a software algorithm. We're talking about automation that helps doctors do their job - not automation that replicates what a doctor does or replaces them in any way, as was propositioned. These systems we have now, and those which are realistically viable in the future, many of which only appear to be automated, and wouldn't meet a rigorous definition of automation, will always be subject to the inputs of living, breathing doctors.
Not that I like doctors - I despise the vast majority of them, and I think, having had a privileged insight, their professional standards are abhorrent. But, unfortunately, there's no magical technology that's going to save us from them.
