2023-06-27 08:50:41
In his book “Sálvese quien puede” (2018) Andrés Oppenheimer talks regarding the medicine of the future. In his research, he interviewed doctors and futurologists; And here are some conclusions.
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Medical consultations will be virtual through smartphones (telemedicine). These same devices will remind us of the hours to take our medications.
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Medicine will cease to be a practice or art to become an exact science with new technologies: computers and robots. The doctor with a stethoscope around his neck will be something from the romantic past of medical practice.
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Thousands of medical investigations are done, so many articles are published that a doctor cannot be up to date: the computer will replace his limited memory. Before medicine had insufficient information, now there is too much. A computer can process 60 million pages of medical information in one second.
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We are going from episodic and reactive medicine to constant and proactive medicine: we will have sensors and applications on our cell phones to constantly monitor our bodies. Medicine will be much more preventive and proactive, using genetic information and our habits to help prevent disease.
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Doctors are going to prescribe fewer and fewer medicines and more cell phone applications so that we can detect illnesses ourselves, without having to go to the doctor’s office and wait several hours for them to see us.
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Just like modern cars have dashboard lights that come on when the engine needs oil, our sensors will turn on a light or send out an alarm signal when our bodies need maintenance.
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Almost all medical futurologists agree that the proliferation of home diagnostic devices will reduce the use of clinics and hospitals.
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The doctors of the future will be a filter, in the sense that they will be dedicated to interpreting the information and presenting it in a friendly and compassionate way. We are going to need the advice of our doctors to put things in context and avoid wrong reactions.
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Radiologists see thousands of images. They are overwhelmed by the amount of chest X-rays and MRIs they need to interpret. What we are going to see is that the applications and artificial intelligence will examine the X-rays and send the most serious cases to the radiologist for a final reading.
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There are already thousands of robots in the world that perform all kinds of surgeries every day, with greater precision and in less invasive ways than human surgeons.
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There are already robots the size of a pill that you swallow, go down into your stomach and take pictures, replacing endoscopies.
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Virtually all studies of the future of jobs agree that psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals are among the least likely to be replaced by robots.
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