This will shift the supply and demand equation and lower medical costs and make life easier for doctors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/medical-robots/would-you-...
Its time to start shifting this discussion over to the name of the profession-
>Physician
and
>Pharmacist
These jobs are not often limited by the amount of physical and mental labor, but often by bureaucratic paperwork to get the government mandated approval.
My wife is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, and Physicians have the stamp needed to get a patient treatment. $380M has been paid by physicians to politicians to entrench their position.
It seems we need to AI and remove the bureaucracy. This is true for Pharma, insurance, and hospitals. That AI will reduce costs.
and it would primarily be used with routine surgeries and would default to human intervention under uncertainty. Most of these surgeries are basically identical and the AI could improve by sharing data with all surgeries performed around the world. Not to mention how bad humans are at surgery, especially when fatigued.
AI is the only way to fix healthcare, a doctor/surgeon can work effectively only a few hours a day and takes nearly 30 years to educate from childhood. An AI could do surgery and diagnose patients nearly 24/7, 7 days a week.
Surgical robots -- at least the ones that actually exist and work today -- are designed more like traditional safety-critical robotics platforms and less like a one-off case study for a nice visualization/table for an end-to-end deep RL paper. There is no "the model".
In other words, this still leaves the same problem—students getting crushed by the medical education gauntlet.