"While patient acceptance of AI doctors is relevant, most people who stand to benefit from this technology – especially in low resource settings – will not be comparing human doctors to AI doctors. They will be contrasting AI doctors with the only alternative – nothing."
Tuncdogan, A., Acar, O.A. & Car, J. Reframing the AI Doctor debate: the comparison should not be with Doctors but Doctorlessness. Discov Health Systems 4, 78 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44250-025-00264-0
Decentralised healthcare is the future. Or is it?
Prevention will take center-stage in alleviating chronic diseases. Reducing the number of cases, healthcare costs will be central. Acute diseases requiring inpatient or outpatient healthcare would obviously still require the existing healthcare system.
The number of people capable of becoming doctors or nurses may increase, but the number of people willing to stay in is unknown.
Government will continue to attempt to control the prescription, flow and possession of chemicals.
Identifying areas of growth
Critical thinking will be required more than ever.
Overall, I believe that the current system may well absorb the AI developments.
Demand for physicians, especially specialists, will continue to be high, simply because the bottleneck is not with AI, but with the patient's abilities to comprehend, understand, think and act with skill and competence, on medical knowledge.
Primary care in rural areas will be driven to enhance its scope of practice to care for sicker and sicker patients, with access to AI.
Primary care in denser populated areas like towns and cities will continue to be needed for the validation of illness and legal responsibilities.
Demographic trends favor more healthcare.
Ultimately, it could be the healthcare organisations that benefit the most.
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