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They won't be replaced, but doctors are becoming both more expensive and increasingly harder to get access to, so having a cheap and scalable baseline to diagnose the common problems seems like a good thing?

So far WebMD with its entire algorithm being if(symptom) return "cancer"; has somewhat destroyed all public faith in these sorts of systems, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to get done to a useful degree.




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