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Think about what this literally means. There are a million doctors in the US. Doctors spend their day consulting patients, so, you need a million transcription reviewers. Let's say you pay each of them $50k/yr (aka rock bottom US entry-level wage).

That's $50 billion a year, and a million people pulled out of the labor force. Is that worth it? Is that really the best thing you can do with $50 billion dollars? In real life, tradeoffs exist.



There are already a lot of people doing manual review and editing of medical transcription speech recognition output. That has been the status quo for decades. A lot of those workers are offshore in India and Philippines. Overall transcription work is slowly declining as more physicians switch to direct EHR template data entry and AI scribes.




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