KevinMD January 15, 2026
Primary care providers and primary care medicine are on the downswing in the U.S., burdened with increasing demands of documentation and numerous complicated quality programs in the face of rapidly diminishing reimbursements. While the tribe is disappearing fast, enter its newest nemesis: artificial intelligence (AI).
You might wonder why AI is detrimental to primary care and primary care physicians. The common notion is that physicians, including primary care physicians, will be able to use AI as an extension to augment their work and increase efficiency. While this might be true to some extent, primary care is also facing an existential threat from AI.
The ultimate danger primary care faces from AI is more or less its eventual replacement by AI....
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