The role of the family doctor (in the US) has changed drastically in the last ~8 years. They are a heuristic wearing a lab coat doing mostly data entry. The he

The role of the family doctor (in the US) has changed drastically in the last ~8 years. They are a heuristic wearing a lab coat doing mostly data entry. The healthcare industry (in the US) needs sweeping reform to embrace technological and sociological realities for the 2020s. The AMA is a brake on progress, and not crazy progress or "disruption," but basic things like providing more direct access to care. Insurance companies are changing some aspects, but mostly in ways that benefit them, not the individual.