You can't run Healthcare at a huge loss..HUGE..and expect a viable future. Sure point to insulin that's been around a long time and generics that represent old drugs...however where are new meds and treatments that haven't even made it to market yet? Even modern day equipment..pacemakers, joint replacements, stents, robots..they all cost money.

When you begin ordering lab tests (if you haven't already) please bear in mind that if it takes longer than you expect, the hold up might be due to one of those instruments being 'out of control'. The techs are probably in there with screw drivers and wrenches and such and a huge manufacturer's manual trying to figure out what's wrong and fix it. We simply can't turn out a result if the controls run before and after it are not within range. This is a daily occurrence.

Are you confusing healthcare provision and R&D?

I think you need to look outside the US, where insulin isn't thousands of dollars, generics are widespread, and most medical innovation occurs while also GIVING IT AWAY to the populous.

Huge losses in Healthcare?? So yeah Im sure that particular area will be ripe with innovation in the future.

I goofed. I missed the point that you are a medical student. That advice would apply to other majors. Sorry.

Which is why the solution is to FUCK THOSE ORGANISATIONS OFF out of healthcare.

There should NOT be profit in healthcare. In fact there should be "loss" on a spreadsheet. Huge losses. Because the gain is not spreadsheetable, but from a generation of healthy people who can all "afford" to go to a doctor.

Hospital administration and insurance companies love this attitude. Make all those save the world doctors do all the work and we'll reap the profits while cutting their reimbursement at same time. I mean they are only in it to help people

I’ve been a general practitioner for 25 years. Nothing is safe from the impacts of AI and technology. Having said that, not much has changed compared to when I started medicine 25 years ago.

Some little things have changed but nothing that is sea-leaves changing.

The biggest change that I have witnessed is the overwhelming corporatization of medicine which has not been good for doctors or patients. This will only continue to go badly unfortunately.

My advice-go where your heart leads you. Do medicine that you are passionate about. Make sure the medicine you do matches your personal values. If you don’t like interacting with patients then be a pathologist or an internal medicine sub specialist or a surgeon or a proceduralist like PM&R or anesthesia.

Eventually AI will be ubiquitous in the next 15-20 years. I will be retired. But AI is unlikely to replace us in the next 50 years. They will be more like helpers and assistants. Real replacements will probably take 150-200 years.

Any specialty you pick there is only one component to being a successful physician - exercising good judgement. If you can exercise good judgement (this comes with time, and practice and repetitions and good residency and fellowship training) you will be very successful for the rest of your life no matter what you pick.

Don’t sweat it. You will be fine with whatever you go with. Except radiology. Don’t pick that.

Ugh!!! This same attitude is why teachers get paid dirt. “They are doing it for the kids and passion for the job.”

Thank you for showing me how AI is up and coming for the medical industry.

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Neurosurgeon and, really, a medical specialist that never stops learning. And is creative, and willing to help. But, as it should be, robots will be able to do most diagnosing and surgery.

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You, as a medical specialist, will read over the surgery and documents of what the robots do. Kinda like an auditor.

None. Attrition stemming from ever-lower Medicare reimbursement rates will kill all of the medical professions.

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There are no aliens, we would have seen their presence in the universe by now. Billions of Galaxies and no sign yet. Life on earth is unique.

Out of chemistry and physics came biology. Evolution is moving faster and faster with AI being the endgame.

Once AI is developed to the point of the Singularity, we could create a world of abundance for all.

The end of capitalism, plenty for all, resources to create anything we want including longevity.

It's linear algebra all the way down.

And, yes, fewer and fewer young people these days are taught complex mathematics. Some barely know simple math. It's no wonder the AI chat bots look so amazing. It's kind of like someone from the 19th century seeing a 747.

"technological singularity preppers" anyone? : )

I think leeches will make a big comeback. Gotta get those bad humours out of the system.

America's one of the few places in the world where people would ask this question intending to "prosper" from their medical skills.

I want a doctor who wants to help people, not make a profit.

Maybe dive into it a bit before making a bunch of assumptions. If you want to do some creative writing fine but don't mask that as intelligent conversation with absolutely no basis in the subject matter spoken on

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I guess I don’t see any inherent difference between neuro or any other surgical specialty. In fact if machines were gonna take over something, it would be procedures on very fixed structures like the spine or brain. In comparison to bowel, let’s say. Could a robot which knows exactly the coordinates in your brain to remove a tumor because it can read the CT scan do a better job than a human can? Maybe I don’t know,

Could a computer read an MRI and more accurately place screws into the spine? I don’t know.

What’ll happen probably is a surgeon will virtually always be there, and a computer will assist on certain components, I would guess.

I'm sure nobody expected covid to happen, so I'm gonna take a shot and say we have no idea.

I was going to suggest neurosurgery. It seems like one of those fields you'll always want a human in the mix.

Why no one mentioned orthopaedics? It's hard the imagine a robot putting your broken arm back together in the near future. Things involving hand work might be better protected from automation. At least for now.