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The Inevitable Shift: AI and the Future of Primary care Doctors

Author
Kadiyali Srivatsa
Published
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://rss.com/podcasts/srivatsa/2073935

Fasten your seatbelts as we delve into the future of healthcare, exploring how artificial intelligence is poised to transform the medical landscape and how one innovative system, Dr

Maya GPT, is already leading the charge.

The conventional wisdom that AI will merely assist doctors is rapidly becoming outdated; the emerging reality is that AI will inevitably replace most physicians. Despite their self-importance, many medical professionals scoff at this prediction, believing their roles are too complex or indispensable for machines to handle. However, this perspective overlooks the fundamental nature of medical practice.

Dispelling the Illusion of Complexity:

Contrary to popular belief, most individual medical decisions are not intricate mysteries requiring profound human intuition but relatively straightforward, templated, and logical tasks. Simple examples include prescribing blood pressure medication when blood pressure is high or refilling diabetes medication; an AI bot easily accomplishes these. AI can perform many routine physician tasks—identifying drug interactions, returning messages, monitoring vital signs, and recommending preventative screenings—faster, more consistently, and with a lower error rate than human doctors. Even for proceduralists, a significant portion of their work time is spent on non-operative tasks that could be automated.

The Patient's Evolving Preferences:

While patients naturally tend to prefer human doctors, this preference is conditional. Patients also value convenience, and unlike human doctors, AI bots can operate 24/7, without breaks or holidays. As society becomes increasingly comfortable with technology and AI integrates into every aspect of life, attitudes towards AI healthcare providers are expected to shift. Furthermore, AI doctors are projected to be significantly cheaper, altering the cost-benefit analysis for many patients. Surprisingly, AI chatbots have demonstrated a higher capacity for empathy in online interactions than human physicians, mainly due to their unlimited time and lack of burnout, which often hinder human doctors from fully expressing compassion.

Dr. Maya GPT: Already Addressing the Future of Healthcare

Now, let's turn our attention to Dr Maya GPT. This system addresses the issues raised by the advent of AI in medicine and offers solutions to challenges you might not have even considered. Dr Kadiyali Srivatsa, an ICU doctor and the creator of Dr Maya GPT, pioneered patient-centred care a decade before large tech companies entered the healthcare space to monetize it. His vision is to protect every life, not by controlling it but by liberating it from fear, ignorance, and dependency.

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