Most of primary care physicians' work is largely this:
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Patient says something, you translate it into signs/symptoms
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Use a matrix chart on medical software to match up against investigations/pathologies/radiologies to be ordered
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Follow up on results: write a prescription, give textbook answers on care, or refer out to specialists
Do you not see how this will be replaced extremely quickly by immediately available medical advice via a LLM? It's already starting to happen at Kaiser, where you can do an e-visit for common conditions.
Doctors won't literally go out of work... but the majority of their "easy work" will probably go away.
