Cookbook Medicine Coming Soon
A committee convened by the Institute of Medicine just released a list of its 100 top priorities for the new Comparative Effectiveness Research board. The move is ultimately designed to replace physician discretion with protocols that have been vetted through a research board. Committee co-chair Harold C. Sox said… “Health care decisions too often are a matter of guesswork because we lack good evidence to inform them.”
With cookbook medicine you really don’t need a cook. Most things could be done by a nurse — or anyone else who can read and follow directions. Might even be able to do everything with robots.
Yep, we can save a bunch of money by closing all the medical schools and use it to provide coverage for all. Maybe even close the nursing schools, too, and replace them with minimum wage workers following directions given by a few million lines of software code.