Gerrit De Vynck 🦭(@GerritD):I think a good job to tell your kids to go into is something like a genetic counselor or patient advocate. Where you're doing the hard work of explaining medical processes and decisions but you are not doing the diagnosis yourself

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Gerrit De Vynck 🦭@GerritD

2026.09.25 18:01

I think a good job to tell your kids to go into is something like a genetic counselor or patient advocate. Where you're doing the hard work of explaining medical processes and decisions but you are not doing the diagnosis yourself

Gerrit De Vynck 🦭@GerritD

2026.09.25 17:47

@cwarzel the radiologist argument is starting to break down. Of course at some theoretical point we stop needing people with 10 years of schooling to do patient relations if the machine is doing 100% of the diagnosis