prediction: AI will collapse traditional medical specialties as we know them. medical specialties emerged out of necessity. as medicine became more complex, no single physician could master its full scope. we began dividing care by organ systems, technologies, and life stages — structures that mirrored both biology and the way symptoms typically presented. over time, hospitals, licensing bodies, and reimbursement systems ossified these divisions. we learned to think this way not just because it made biological sense, but because it was the only way we could manage complexity.