I don't think anyone is eagerly awaiting it (unless they were horribly misdiagnosed which is sad reality), but there is an inevitability to it.
It's not a matter of if, its a matter of when. Greed will be the impetus, and eventually quality catching up will be the nail in the coffin for traditional medicine.
I propose that the doctors who use ai to make themselves damned near infallible (by catching the corner cases where the ai is poorly trained) will make out like bandits, just like top lawyers. The ABA is a monopoly, too, and legal cases are perfect fodder for RNNs. Yet good corporate lawyers still make money faster than they can count it.
Meanwhile, shitty lawyers are out of a job.
Lather, rinse, repeat, but with a million times more regulation and inertia.
I'm pretty sure the kind of AI actually discussed in the article is only going to be a good thing for doctors - even the pretty mediocre ones - by sending them more work rather than less.
Person checks funny looking mole on smartphone app, app with intentionally conservative algorithm says there's some risk it might be a melanoma, dermatologist gets to have a proper look at it in three dimensions (and a second opinion from the medical grade version of the ML app). Result: more people visit doctors over issues that never bothered them that much and the doctor gets assistance with their diagnosis.
And of course some of those people that wouldn't have bothered visiting the doctor under the old system actually do turn out to have a melanoma and the early diagnosis significantly improves their survival chances.
It's not a matter of if, its a matter of when. Greed will be the impetus, and eventually quality catching up will be the nail in the coffin for traditional medicine.