Medicine was medicine and would always be needed. Machines could handle a lot, but in the end, people tended to trust doctors over machines, with their intuition and deductive reasoning and ability to look beyond what was presented. Machines could tell you a lot, but they lacked the humanity that brought a comfort to medicine. They lacked trust.

There was still disease in his world, just not the same ones. Germs and parasites, especially when brought in from other worlds, had a way of adapting in a tenacious and very annoying way.

Kirk's mouth twitched, recognizing the question for what it was. "There's a lot to catch up on, if you just got here. Politics are a fascinating thing in Thedas, especially Orlais, and the Inquisition's position is... unique." A gentle prodding to learn what the medicine seller knew so he didn't waste time and breath.