I'm blaming the regulatory apparatus more for that one. These image based algos are ones that could be DTC but of course the FDA (with a side of lobbying) would never ever allow that.
> You also dramatically overestimate the amount of autonomy any given doctor has over the tools they are able to use.
I'm not saying that doctors are mostly choosing not to use these tools - but that lobbying organizations involving collectives of doctors would lobby against it if it ever tried to do a DTC approach or something like that. Please, steelman what I'm saying - I am very aware that doctors who don't own their practice (vast majority of them) cannot simply choose their tools and even those with their own practice are often limited by what they can bill. I know lots of doctors personally.
> You also dramatically overestimate the amount of autonomy any given doctor has over the tools they are able to use.
I'm not saying that doctors are mostly choosing not to use these tools - but that lobbying organizations involving collectives of doctors would lobby against it if it ever tried to do a DTC approach or something like that. Please, steelman what I'm saying - I am very aware that doctors who don't own their practice (vast majority of them) cannot simply choose their tools and even those with their own practice are often limited by what they can bill. I know lots of doctors personally.