Medicine does not work like traffic. There is no reason for a human to care whether the other car is being driven by a machine.
Medicine is existential. The job of a doctor is not to look at data, give a diagnosis and leave. A crucial function of practicing doctors is communication and human interaction with their patients.
When your life is on the line (and frankly, even if it isn't), you do not want to talk to an LLM. At minimum you expect that another human can explain to you what is wrong with you and what options there are for you.
You often don't speak to the radiologist anyway. Lots of radiologist work remotely and don't meet and speak with every patient.
There's some sort of category error here. Not every doctor is that type of doctor. A radiologist could be a remote interpretation service staffed by humans or by AI, just as sending off blood for a blood test is done in a laboratory.
> There is no reason for a human to care whether the other car is being driven by a machine.
What? If I don't trust the machine or the software running it, absolutely I do, if I have to share the road with that car, as its mistakes are quite capable of killing me.
(Yes, I can die in other accidents too. But saying "there's no reason for me to care if the cars around me are filled with people sleeping while FSD tries to solve driving" is not accurate.)
So, you need a moral support human? Like a big plushie, but more alive?
You know, for most humans, empathy is a thing; all the more so when facing known or suspected health situations. Good on those who have transcended that need. I guess.
What is the point of the snark? If you are going to find out that you are dying within a year, do you want to get that as an E-Mail?
The point is: I don't see "emotional support" as a vital part of the job of a radiologist.