IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
I really expected that we&#x27;d see a change in my lifetime, that GPs in particular would be replaced by a lower-cost Watson descendant, with there being some other role for patient interaction, wet work, and data entry (perhaps just nurses).<p>My mom worked for a GP for about 20 years, and it seemed to me that most of what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things. But GPs often make astounding amounts of money while leaning heavily on their staff to actually handle patients and keep the business running. I thought it could help drugs get a little cheaper too, because there wouldn&#x27;t be any point in the pharma companies sending out salespeople to do lunch seminars to convince the GPs to prescribe this or that drug (this still happens).<p>Maybe this will still happen, but it doesn&#x27;t seem imminent anymore.