Doctor: AI is crushing maths but has barely touched clinical trials and medicine
LaCaipirinha · reddit · 2026-09-17
A doctor working on rare-disease clinical trials argues AI has barely penetrated medicine: pharma enthusiasm is limited to drug discovery, yet a promising molecule still takes 10-20 years to reach patients. The real bottlenecks — study planning, manual data entry, pattern-seeking and projections — are exactly what current AI can trivialize. Medical data is messy but cleaner than many domains, and existing models could already mine the industry's vast unused anonymized data and speed up Phases 1-3.
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