That's only true of surgeons :) What if your specialty is nonsurgical (internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, etc)?
Regarding surgery, I expect it to be one of the easiest procedures to automate, actually (still quite hard, obviously). Because surgery is the only case where there's always advanced imaging available beforehand, and the environment is relatively fixed (OR).
Healthcare megacorps are buying up independent practices like crazy. All because doctors can't keep up with the bullshit IT required for insurance, state mandates, etc and that's in addition to the insanity of even renting commercial real estate for an office these days.
These megacorps set quotas and push doctors to nickel and dime like crazy. They sure as shit will spend the money to find robots that can give you a prostate exam with a robot dildo.
I'm going to laugh if DOGE eliminates the IRS, but also might be thankful
We build software that automates insurance billing for clinics.
And yes, the sentiment is correct that the burden of insurance encourages consolidation in healthcare. Wrapping that away (i.e. Stripe for healthcare financial infra) lowers the barrier to entrepreneurship.
However it can't even be called hallucinating. Imagine the incident "postmortem":
But the AI was trained on White House press briefings