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Sure but why not take the best of both worlds? Make a ai analyze your wrist fracture and also a radiologist analyze it. If the results don’t agree then you need to re-analyze.

That would even drive down the possibility of malpractice.

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A radiologist would have insurance in place for malpractice that indemnifies her/him. So your suggestion that a radiologist would be motivated to use AI to reduce this risk does not seem applicable to me. The idea to run AI alongside the human tool seems to be the current default suggestion these days, now that we have collectively realised that AI cannot do anything serious on its own. Pair it up with a human and the two can work together, with some handholding. But it is a hard sell, the software is now just duplicating a capability, and all of the issues that raises of potentially having two answers to one question. As a radiologist business, you would have to dedicate manpower to investigating when the AI has a different answer. Honestly, if I had a radiology practice, considering the points above, my answer would be no.

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