In this decade.. hm.. not sure about that, but eventually, yes. It's sort of inevitable right? On a macroscopic scale. The more AI advances and automation takes over, the more great minds are free to study the areas AI has yet to discern, until it does. And I believe those areas will be of continued interest for the foreseeable future.

I agree with you, and it makes me wonder about the potential risks/ramifications of newly graduated students having their first experiences with trauma be second hand through their patients. And in turn, how that might affect the patients care if their doctors were in fact affected.

I really hope you’re right.

I hiked the PCT this past year and every town I went to spoke about how natural food resources for bears was incredibly low the past couple years due to a number of contributing factors such as wild fire burnout areas and drought. That same year we saw the rise of 'Hank the Tank' and his cohorts of 500lb bears raiding homes over the winter season instead of hibernating.

I'm in no way an expert and I trust the wildlife commission to get things right, but I would think by limiting their numbers there would be more food for the remaining bears who would stay in the woods rather than raid homes and garbage cans and risk being shot (although I think Hank got away).

On a tangent, just thinking about Hank and being a bit stoned right now.. that bear was a straight up gangster. He was huge! And whereas a lot of other bears went to ground and hibernated and got skinnier, he came out in the spring nice and fat.. probably strutting his stuff to all the lady bears. But hopefully his primal nature took control of him and he doesn't come around again this winter.

Until it does, I wouldn’t consider it alive.