And 50% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and PAs graduate in the bottom half of their class too. Why do you think they are not the ones whose jobs are going to b

And 50% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and PAs graduate in the bottom half of their class too. Why do you think they are not the ones whose jobs are going to be automated away? If an AI can handle the easy cases, it won't be the doctors, who are able to deal with the complicated cases, who will lose their jobs. How much of an average doctor's day is really appointments like this where they just check you lab values and ask you if you're doing okay on your medication and send you on your way? A large number of these cases are already handled by nurse practitioners and PAs. Doctors in my experience spend more time seeing the sicker patients with many chronic medical conditions where the more in depth knowledge of pathology and pharmacology that they spend those years of training acquiring inform the questions they ask, the tests the order, and the physical exam they preform. I don't think the large majority of PAs and NPs really want to step into the same role as physicians. The number of PAs and NPs who were rejected from medical school and then chose to take either of those routes is probably very small compared to the number who chose to become a PA or NP because they wanted that role and not a doctor's.