If AI can diagnose you, why do we need doctors?

If AI can diagnose you, why do we need doctors?

By Peta Rasdien
Publication Date: 2025-12-24 03:52:00

If AI models can diagnose patients in seconds and large voice tools like ChatGPT offer patients instant diagnoses, where does that leave the doctors?

The rapid development of AI has shown doctors that the future is here and they had better get on board or be left behind.

Almost every week, it seems, there are stories about newly developed AI models defeating doctors. And while there is little doubt that the process of making a medical diagnosis is already changing, we shouldn’t discount people just yet.

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AI may be ahead in collecting and analyzing large amounts of data, but there is still a long way to go – it is questionable whether robots will ever put doctors out of work.

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