KevinMD January 20, 2025
Doctors are worried, and rightly so. Recent rapid strides in artificial intelligence threaten to remove the need for doctors to a significant extent. There is an oft-discussed scenario that in the next two to three years, well-trained nurses or other mid-level providers, assisted by artificial intelligence, will be adequate to provide most medical care. So, are we going to see widespread unemployment among medical professionals?
The answer is complex. A recent well-publicized study, also highlighted in The New York Times and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), demonstrated that artificial intelligence using large language models could get complex diagnoses correct more than 90 percent of the time, whereas physicians were only correct about 70 percent of...
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