Also having studied medicine, a lot of what doctors do is rote memorization , heuristic and pattern matching to produce a statistically likely diagnosis. You'd be a fool to think that that job is somehow going to be exempt from the AI singularity at some point.
My disdain is not that the market shouldn't bear it, it's many developers were arrogant and didn't appreciate it for what it was.
I'm fortunate enough I was able to "retire" at 38, but I couldn't have done that if I was blowing all my money, of which I know people who do.
The few times I have been to the doctor it has seemed like relatively standard knowledge work, gathering information and reasoning based on known and unknown factors.
The differentiating factors that make it high status and difficult are seemingly the same as for most knowledge work jobs: high stakes, high stress, high knowledge and skill requirements, limited pool of qualified people.
So unless I am mistaken, it seems like the kind of work that is very suited for automation. At the start it could be as simple as an AI automatically summarizing patient meetings.
To be honest I'd much prefer a initial consult with a ChatGPT like doctor rather than a real one. I was misdiagnosed for years and had to figure out, on my own, that Lyme disease was causing my problems.
Even once that was what I suspected my doctors wouldn't test me. Finally I got one to do so and that confirmed it. Meanwhile I've talked to multiple people already that have put their symptoms into chat GPT and it's figured out what they have.
For me I haven't been able to because every prompt I've tried it just said "Speak to a medical professional" but this stuff is coming for sure.