Can the medical doctors be replaced by AI in future? Which branches of medical practices will be hit first?

So are you saying that you would finish University in 2027, and then in 2039, you would start a practice? Well, having a career in Medicine is always an excellent choice, but, only if you basically want to commit to a career for Life, that will impose the heaviest demands on you, and your family. AI & Robots will NOT be replacing Medical Doctors, due to it’s inherent and mind-full Application, Complexity & Dexterity. AI & Robots will be and are becoming useful tools, but only as extensions of physicians, and surgery. Now, beyond the year 5000 AD, it may be quite different, but for right now … You have Other Things to worry about … like Pre-med, CGPA & ace-ing the MCAT. David St Michael , DNA Genomic Sequencing Consultant Source: Quora Digest

It is possible to create an AI system that takes in symptoms and produces possible diagnosis. It would also be possible for it to check its model and figure out what additional evidence is most likely to change or clarify the diagnosis, and order a test to gather that evidence. You would still need someone to perform all of the tests, and input the symptoms in. This would require some level of training itself, though not as much as a doctor. Still, it would not be a trivial program to create, and the creators would be at a high risk of liability if it prescribed the wrong treatment. You would also need to get the legal system to accept this program as an acceptable substitute for a doctor, get clinics to buy this substitute doctor, then have patients who are willing to go to it. That last one is particuarly a hard sell since you would lose the human aspect; you want a human to explain what is wrong, be able to offer comfort, understand any special needs you may have, break bad news properly, etc. Dean Carpenter , Professional programmer working on NLP Source: Quora Digest

This is so complex to answer but in my view by that time yes ai would have developed a lot and we could have quantum computing power and right now Amazon and Microsoft has started quantum computing services so as of now ai in medicine may take 90 percent of tasks of radiologists now but still in final phase of testing and by 2025 we could see them commercially in Hospitals and clinics then later we will move on consulting physicians and we will build ai that could diagnose disease way better than doctors but in the current scenario we have certain softwares which could predict simple diseases but the development of that will progress of course we can't stop it and coming to your question will it replace professional like doctors in 2067 it will replace not fully at least to be safe 70 percent of their jobs but still we may have humans in a clinic but they will oversee the process of such machines yes the doctors are required to explain everything to the patient on their medical condition but the salary of the doctor may decrease and the demand for them won't be as we have now and we may see affordable healthcare by the next 10 years yes the process will start by 2021 and lawyers no robots can go to a court and battle your case it will at least take a 100 years to reach that era yes ai will do most of the jobs of Rizwan Mohamed , studied at S.M Shetty International School (2016) Source: Quora Digest