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I was thinking this the other day about GP. If I work in tech I work in a team and we pair. Why doesnt this happen with doctors. Why is everything all on one mind to get wrong or right. Yes there is a team of doctors sometimes but they communicate via emails async and you visit one then the next and so on. I guess I know the answer. Money.

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Medicine is a team activity. There is no amount of money which could ever make it feasible to have multiple physicians working simultaneously on routine cases, but they do delegate some tasks to lower licensed providers such as nurses and technicians.

For really complex cases there is the Mayo Clinic model (also used in a few other health systems). A patient can come for a day and be seen by an integrated team of specialists to get a diagnosis and treatment plan. But this isn't really scalable.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-centered-care/what-makes-...

Short supply, high demand

And imagine if we had the same requirements to write software as we do to perform surgery! Things would be very different.

On the flip side, if/when I ever go for surgery I'm pretty damn glad we don't have the same requirements to perform surgery as we do to write software.

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