I'd bet that within 25 years, almost all GPs will have been replaced by an app that does what they do for free.
The current trend has been to replace frontline primary care MDs with undertrained, "cheaper" female nurse practitioners who are dangerous because they don't even know what they don't know.
Like everything, what will be lost with the introduction of AI will be nuance.
Essentially every current prescription for antibiotic drops for pink eye is completely useless and inappropriate because it's 90%+ viral in origin in children, but every child gets treated anyway because moms demand it, daycares and schools have protocols demanding it, doctors are lazy/pushovers/opportunists, it's not socially acceptable to "do nothing rather than something", etc.
An AI can be programmed to inappropriately dispense bad medicine to every child with a gunky eye as well, but it also changes and ignores all the social dynamics that play out because the "right" treatment isn't always what's written in the textbook.
The current trend has been to replace frontline primary care MDs with undertrained, "cheaper" female nurse practitioners who are dangerous because they don't even know what they don't know.
Like everything, what will be lost with the introduction of AI will be nuance.
Essentially every current prescription for antibiotic drops for pink eye is completely useless and inappropriate because it's 90%+ viral in origin in children, but every child gets treated anyway because moms demand it, daycares and schools have protocols demanding it, doctors are lazy/pushovers/opportunists, it's not socially acceptable to "do nothing rather than something", etc.
An AI can be programmed to inappropriately dispense bad medicine to every child with a gunky eye as well, but it also changes and ignores all the social dynamics that play out because the "right" treatment isn't always what's written in the textbook.