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Census · Clinical · occupation code 29-1299

Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other

Every task in this role, whether it passes the census's structural hand-over screen, which models pass it, and why. It is a screen, not a claim about what AI can do: a task can pass and still be beyond the systems of the day. The stricter and looser rules re-vote every task, and small differences between roles are noise.

Passes the screen · 1 of 36 tasks

  • Obtain medical records from previous physicians or other health care providers for the purpose of patient evaluation.

    quick to check, an existing check settles it, and a mistake is cheap · 2.0% of the role's time · $64.4M · passed by Claude Sonnet, Gemini 3.1 Pro · the models disagreed

Does not pass

  • Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.

    physical work, outside the screen · 5.6% of the role's time · $177M

  • Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.

    physical work, outside the screen · 5.6% of the role's time · $176M

  • Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.

    physical work, outside the screen · 5.4% of the role's time · $171M

  • Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.2% of the role's time · $166M

  • Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it, and a failure is too expensive · 5.2% of the role's time · $165M · passed by Claude Sonnet · the models disagreed

  • Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.0% of the role's time · $158M

  • Educate patients about health care management.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 5.0% of the role's time · $158M

  • Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.

    physical work, outside the screen · 4.9% of the role's time · $154M

  • Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 4.8% of the role's time · $152M

  • Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids.

    physical work, outside the screen · 4.7% of the role's time · $148M

  • Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 4.5% of the role's time · $142M

  • Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 4.1% of the role's time · $131M

  • Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or patients with disabilities.

    physical work, outside the screen · 3.9% of the role's time · $124M

  • Diagnose health conditions, based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it, and a failure is too expensive · 3.8% of the role's time · $121M

  • Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.

    physical work, outside the screen · 3.7% of the role's time · $116M

  • Administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself.

    physical work, outside the screen · 3.6% of the role's time · $115M

  • Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 2.4% of the role's time · $77.4M

  • Collaborate with ophthalmologists, optometrists, or other specialists in the diagnosis, treatment, or management of conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal diseases.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it, and a failure is too expensive · 2.2% of the role's time · $69.9M

  • Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 2.1% of the role's time · $66.2M

  • Prepare diagnostic or treatment reports for other medical practitioners or therapists.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 2.0% of the role's time · $63.3M

  • Maintain professional development through activities such as postgraduate education, continuing education, preceptorships, and residency programs.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked · 2.0% of the role's time · $62.8M

  • Conduct periodic public health maintenance activities such as immunizations and screenings for diseases and disease risk factors.

    physical work, outside the screen · 1.6% of the role's time · $50.8M

  • Order diagnostic imaging procedures such as radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds, mammograms, and bone densitometry tests, or refer patients to other health professionals for these procedures.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 1.6% of the role's time · $49.7M

  • Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 1.6% of the role's time · $49.2M

  • Assist ophthalmologists in diagnostic ophthalmic procedures, such as ultrasonography, fundus photography, and tonometry.

    physical work, outside the screen · 1.5% of the role's time · $45.9M

  • Prescribe synthetic drugs under the supervision of medical doctors or within the allowances of regulatory bodies.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it, and a failure is too expensive · 1.0% of the role's time · $31.8M

  • Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.

    physical work, outside the screen · 0.9% of the role's time · $29.8M

  • Perform venipuncture or skin pricking to collect blood samples.

    physical work, outside the screen · 0.9% of the role's time · $28.8M

  • Participate in clinical research projects.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 0.9% of the role's time · $28.5M

  • Monitor updates from public health agencies to keep abreast of health trends.

    reason given most often: no existing check settles it · 0.7% of the role's time · $23.1M

  • Treat minor cuts, abrasions, or contusions.

    physical work, outside the screen · 0.5% of the role's time · $15.1M

  • Perform minor surgical procedures, such as removing warts, moles, or cysts, sampling tissues for skin cancer or lipomas, and applying or removing sutures.

    physical work, outside the screen · 0.4% of the role's time · $12.0M

  • Present or publish scientific papers.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 0.3% of the role's time · $9.6M

  • Report patterns of patients' health conditions, such as disease status and births, to public health agencies.

    reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked · 0.2% of the role's time · $6.2M

  • Perform vision screening of children in schools or community health centers.

    physical work, outside the screen · 0.2% of the role's time · $4.8M

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