I am far more interested in your personal statements of your views than in the above interview. I might add that my appreciation of your depth of consideration and understanding isn't complete agreement with your positions.

For example, you well express the great value a personal relationship with a doctor adds to medical services, and I agree there is great value in such a relationship. However, the militarization, indeed weaponization, of the medical industry today makes such value so great as to be largely unattainable for many, perhaps most people. For many of the reasons that have impelled medical professionals to spend so much time charting, the worst of which is the aversion insurance companies have to spending money on services, doctors are very pressed for time when seeing patients today.

I have sometimes felt like providers were going to leap up and throw their hands in the air, like calf-ropers at rodeos upon completing their task, so hurriedly did they perform procedures. That hurry causes innumerable errors, and it is caused by viewing time spent with patients as a cost.

Doctors choose their profession at least in part because they expect to be well paid. The emunerative possibilities doctors face include Brobdingnagian bonuses for increasing rates of vaccination, for example, that certainly create incentives for doctors to value their personal relationships with their patients less, and their compensation more. Pharmaceutical reps are notorious for offering such bonuses, junkets to Aruba, and etc., to doctors for prescribing their products, and this influences doctors too strongly IMHO.

Because these financial interests of doctors are contrary to providing people the best health care that can be given, I feel that people themselves, who have no such competing financial interests, will benefit greatly from having AI available to enable them to diagnose themselves, as well as the ability to themselves prescribe medication. Certainly no AI is yet capable of this, and people are prevented by law in many jurisdictions from being able to prescribe. However, I am certain technology will continue to progress, and that people are 100% sovereign, most particularly with regard to what they ingest, so I strongly oppose any legal restriction on our rights to decide what medicine we will take. This is not a claim that medical mistakes will not be made. However, iatrogenic causes are today the leading cause of death.

We cannot make that worse.

So, while I fully credit you with well considering your views, and am confident you have made decisions and take positions you fully support, I may not always agree. As I do not value the opinions of eCelebs or politicians I will never meet and cannot reason with, your personal statements are immeasurably more valuable to me - particularly because you can reason with me, and set me straight where I am wrong. That video cannot criticize me, while your criticism can enable me to become right if I am not, making your words of potentially immense value to me.