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I'm not sure, attempts to solve social science-ish problems tend to get derailed by status signalling in ways that heart surgery does not.
Even time I go to renew my vehicle registration or renew my driver's license, the facility is better streamlined. That's the result of social science research. I just think we'll keep getting better at it, so more and more will be accepted at the level of traditional medicine. That's not to say that mindkilling won't continue to be a huge risk in those fields.
Are you sure? Bureaucratic record keeping is almost the most inherently computerizable, networkable, software-automatible task I can imagine, and as it happens we have been making some incredible strides in computers, networking, and software for the past few decades...
The advances in queuing people efficiently are not a product of advancements in software or hardware. In other words, I think of the insights that led to the creation of Disney's Fastpass as social science advancements.