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This is how you get worse racism in hospitals

That warning showed the patient’s white blood cell count was “really, really high,” recalled Bell, the clinical nurse educator for the hospital’s general medicine program.

I'm not a doctor, but even an idiot would know when a WBC is "really, really high" and assume infection. I mean, shit, "suffering from a cat bite and a fever, but otherwise appeared fine "... um, a cat bite AND A FEVER... red flag!

“It’s not replacing the nurse at the bedside; it’s actually enhancing your nursing care.”

I would argue that this would make nurses less important, and would make them "lazy" by not giving them opportunities to identify these simple things on a regular basis.

Would a nurse who doesn't know what a very high WBC entails be paid less? I would think so.

I can see AI/machine learning used in very complex cases where a human HCP would simply not have the number-crunching capability to find a diagnosis, but this was not that case.

This is exactly what we want machine learning to do, analyze existing data and quickly report to a human with what it found.

Generative LLM's are garbage, analyzing with machine learning aids is useful.