High-Tech Low-Touch Medicine… The Future??
As stated in the video, I find the emergence of this low touch, high tech (nearly factory-like) model in medicine to be disturbing…
Most diagnoses require a high touch, hands on physical examination… then, combined with the history or complaints you gave your physician, a list of potential diagnoses should arise. At that point a decision is made if further testing is necessary.
Right now the trend is exactly the opposite…. patients are being asked to have MRIs first, before seeing specialists, and some specialists will turn you away if your MRI is “normal”.
Is this the future of medicine? I sure hope not!
One day a physician is going to look in a mirror and see a patient… how will that physician want to be treated?… remember.
We are ALL patients.
Way to go! The technology is supposed to be a tool in the hands of good people. Not a replacement for them, right?There will never be a replacement for human examination or reasoning, except perhaps for a miracle intervention of God’s healing.
Thx @rawarrior ! U are correct. Technology has it’s place. It should not, however, (telemedicine aside) in the vast majority of circumstances replace a history, physical exam, arrive at probably diagnoses, consideration of further diagnostic options and then consideration of therapeutic options algorithm or workflow that has functioned quite well, for a long period of time.
A wise radiologist once told me “if you don’t know what you’re looking for (on an X-ray, CT, ultrasound, MRI, and what have you), you won’t find it. You can automate many things in medicine, but not what goes on between the health professional’s ears.
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