There's only one nature.
Medicine is divided up into disciplines, but this is just for convenience.
Structure and function are inseparable. Each constrains the other. But medicine has classically distinguished between doctors who perform anatomical interventions and those who perform physiological ones.
How might this change, as technology advances?
Consider the bottlenecks. A lot of things need to happen before a medical breakthrough is usable in practice. Some of these are common across all interventions (e.g. regulatory approval). But others are variable.
In particular, anatomy has a technical element to it. It takes time to teach people a new procedure. And even once we have large-scale robotics, there'll always be more hardware constraints than those of physiological interventions.
What does this mean?
As the pace of scientific discovery increases, the faster iteration speed of non-procedural treatments (like medications) will compound.
Their reach will grow, solving previously unsolvable problems and creating a narrower, deeper set of pathologies for anatomical treatments to focus on.
This is great news for humanity. But in the short term, it'll be disruptive.
How should we prepare?