Residents are working doctors, so we’d start losing useful work the year we stop taking new residents.

Let’s say we do manage to develop a model that can replace radiologists in 20 years. But we stop training them today. What happens 15 years from now when we don’t have nearly enough radiologists.

My wife’s an ER doctor and she talks to radiologists all the time.

I also recently had surgery and the surgeon consulted with the radiologist that read my MRI before operating.

> Yet self-driving cars are already competitive with human drivers, safety-wise, given responsible engineering and deployment practices.

Are they? Self driving cars only operate in a much safer subset of conditions that humans do. They have remote operators who will take over if a situation arises outside of the normal operating parameters. That or they will just pull over and stop.

I don’t think they talk to patients all that often but my wife is an ER doctor and she says she talks to them all the time.