Radiologist , fascinating, and I'll talk more about this.
radiologists kid mama don't let your your daughter grow up to be a radiologist cuz that job's going away.
turned radiologist .
And radiologists have 10 or 20 tasks.
for radiologists in 2026 is up because what it ends up is that while scanning the image is important, it's a small
and radiologists , and general practitioners, and we had pathologists and everyone else.
The fact that the radiologist can consult with an AI model that helps them read scans and detect cancers and other problems makes them
But a radiologist where you're analyzing images, obviously, something Google has pioneered.
I interviewed a radiologist at CES last year.
And we get the radiologist to put a catheter into the main vein that goes up into the liver.
83% of the radiologists did not see the gorilla, even though eye-tracking devices showed that they looked directly at it, even though the gorilla was
How many of the radiologists saw the gorilla?
83% of the radiologists did not see the gorilla, even though eye-tracking devices showed that they look directly at it, and even though the gorilla was 44 times the size
83% of the radiologists didn't see it.
the surgeons were actually outperforming the radiologist and so um we were very fortunate to be there because the forr
Or in the example of the radiologist -- and this goes for examples of decision support or expert system or analytical programs in general-- one thing you can do
Because that extends the time that a radiologist is going to look at this.
We have a shortage in radiologists .
said we should stop training radiologists anymore.
AI is going to be better than radiologists .
and it turns out we have more radiologists than we did 10 years ago, and they're better paid.
um and uh we had three Radiologists and three surgeons work with our FDA process and during that process we found that
There were a bunch of radiologists .
And what it does is it gives the radiologist prompts.
Hospitals who want the highest productivity possible from radiologists would be averse to saying, well, we'll let the radiologist look at the image
We're not going to need any more radiologists .
because the AI will be better than the radiologists ."
He wasn't wrong about AI being better than the radiologists .
This guy at Harvard Medical School sent out to radiologists a lung scan, asked them to check for cancer nodes, which are tiny,
And the radiologist is looking at the films after my MRI.
He says, I'm a radiologist .
That was where he made this famous statement that we should stop training radiologists in 2016 because he said, in five years—
He said, "We should stop training radiologists ." He said, "In five years," from 2016's perspective, "there'll be no more radiologists with jobs,
Ground zero for the job that was going to go go away was radiologists .
Now, how many of the radiologists do you think saw the gorilla?
So for example, compare anesthesiologists to radiologists .
Radiologists get really miserable feedback about whether
The value out of a radiologist is diagnosing the illness and then coming up with a treatment plan.
My wife, who is a medical doctor, a radiologist in fact, is just finishing her PhD in paleoanthropology now.
There was a recent paper by someone at Astros magazine who went back and looked how are radiologists doing today?
The most in peril for their current roles would be those that look at images, so radiologists , dermatologists.
So you could expect an anesthesiologist to develop intuition much more than you would expect radiologist to develop intuition.
And in 2016, so 10 years ago, he said, "Stop training radiologists now because
Well, in fact, there's a nice article written in this magazine, Works in Progress, that documented we have more radiologists today than we did in 2016,
learning initially on an imaging study to give a reading, and then having that confirmed or not by radiologists .
So there's another study, which is an homage to that study, which had a bunch of radiologists at Harvard go through a stack of lung scans.
In another very different area, back to health care, if you look at how radiologists read diagnostic images today,
We don't need all the accountants, the attorneys, the radiologists .