The AMA will fight to prevent it, but it will still happen. Even surgeons can be replaced. Once a surgical robot has learned an operation, it can pass it on to limitless other bots across the globe in seconds. They learn by imitating humans and correcting their errors.
I think the first change we'll see is a medical app that you have on your phone. It will take care a of a huge percentage of GP visits that require little knowledge or expertise. If visual input is needed, you just use your phone's video.
Next will come a portable medical kit that everyone has at home. It can take samples of body fluids for analysis in real time - blood, excrement, saliva, etc. Also measures BP and breathing patterns, color. Sends a report to your GP or if something's worng, a robot ambulance. Robo ambo comes to your door, takes you to a robot surgeon and a robot nurse looks after you post op.
There's no way this won't happen. No salaries to pay makes big medicine's bottom line grow rapidly.
The only threat to this model is if Ai starts coming up with cures. In medicine there's "10000 diseases and no cures for any of them". A politician famously said this, and unfortunately it's accurate! They will need to either keep cures hidden from the people or make them pay exhorbitant fees to access.
Cures are the biggest threat to big medicine & big pharma. They'll pull all sorts of tricks to prevent any disease cure hitting the market.
