> As a nurse, you end up relying on intuition a lot. It’s in the way a patient says something, or just a feeling you get from how they look

There is a longstanding tension between those who believe human intuition is trustworthy, and the “checklist manifesto” folks. Personally I want room for both, there are plenty of cases where for example the nurse/doctor’s intuition fails and they forget to ask about travel or outdoor activities and miss some obvious tropical disease, or something situational like Lyme’s.

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in a hospital and the human touch is really invaluable. My hope is that AI can displace the busywork and leave nurses more time to do the actual care.

But a concrete example of the thing an AI will struggle with is looking at the overlapping pain med schedule, spotting that the patient has not been exhibiting or complaining of pain, and delaying one med a couple hours from the scheduled time to make the night schedule more pleasant for the patient. It’s hard to quantify the tradeoffs here! (Maybe you could argue the patient should be given a digital menu to request this kind of thing…)