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Unfortunately, medicine today isn't deterministic. A lot of decisions are made with 'instinct' -- a fancy word for intangible experience. Human error is always going to be an issue. What might prevent human error in the design of said automated systems?

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It is conceivable that automated medicine would have a lower failure rate for common diseases than "instinct."

I can agree with that. But you've made two implicit assumptions here:

1. The disease is diagnosed and identified as 'common' 2. There are no other complications because of say alcohol abuse, or a genetic condition with kidneys and so forth

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