We should factor medical tasks into a larger number of specialized roles akin to phlebotomists and dental techs.
These roles should perform highly in-demand, relatively straightforward and repetitive tasks that don’t require complex medical decision-making, where training can be efficiently scaled up.
An example that currently doesn’t exist would be a specialist who can prescribe short term courses of drugs like methodone for opioid addiction as a bridge to longer term care by a doctor. This would enable us to have bridges to treatment readily available all over cities whenever an addict walks in ready, perhaps only for that moment in time, to start treatment.
These roles should perform highly in-demand, relatively straightforward and repetitive tasks that don’t require complex medical decision-making, where training can be efficiently scaled up.
An example that currently doesn’t exist would be a specialist who can prescribe short term courses of drugs like methodone for opioid addiction as a bridge to longer term care by a doctor. This would enable us to have bridges to treatment readily available all over cities whenever an addict walks in ready, perhaps only for that moment in time, to start treatment.