From the outside it looks like doctors do fairly mundane things like write prescriptions, make diagnoses, counsel patients etc... But a doctor is not merely som

From the outside it looks like doctors do fairly mundane things like write prescriptions, make diagnoses, counsel patients etc... But a doctor is not merely someone that does these things, each of which could be done (probably better) by a nurse, a physician assistant, a well trained monkey, or an algorithm. The key thing doctors do is take responsibility for a patient. A recurrent neural network won't do that. Machine learning engineers won't/can't do that. Google certainly isn't going to do that. Doctors don't always or even often get it right, and they could always do a better job, but they are still the only ones really willing to take responsibility for a patient.