Being a psychiatrist, obviously I think talking to people is really important. Tests will only tell you so much. You won't even know what to test if people don't actually come forward with some comfort in telling you what's troubling them and don't have the confidence that you will do things the right way.
The other thing is that health care is turning into a team game, so even if you talk about physicians, it's how physicians interact with nurses, psychologists, an others to make sure we bring out the qualities in other professions and work as a team to help an individual. I think we'll have much less one-on-one care, but understanding and caring about patients and speaking to them, I hope, is going to remain front and centre in the art of health care.