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"Eventually, we won’t need the average doctor and will have much better and cheaper care for 90-99% of our medical needs. We will still need to leverage the top 10 or 20% of doctors (at least for the next two decades) to help that bionic software get better at diagnosis. So a world mostly without doctors (at least average ones) is not only not reasonable, but also more likely than not. There will be exceptions, and plenty of stories around these exceptions, but what I am talking about will most likely be the rule and doctors may be the exception rather than the other way around."
Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms? (Calling Dr. iPhone?)
Seeded on Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:01 PM EST
Article Source: TechCrunch
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OK, maybe we won't call Dr. iPhone -- but maybe Dr. Robot is not too far in the near future. Say Ah!
#1 - Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:02 PM ESTMy UP wristband or something like it (disclosure: I am an investor in Jawbone)) will know all my sleep patterns when I am healthy and how many steps I take each day and may have more data on my mobility if I ever get depressed than any psychiatrist ever will know what to do with. Within a few years, my band will know my heart rate at all times, my respiration rate, my galvanic skin resistance (one parameter among multiple ones used to measure my stress level), my metabolic rate (should cost about $10 to add to the band by measuring my CO2 in my breath and may detect changes in my body chemistry too like when I get a certain type of cancer and traces of it show up in my breath).
Sounds pretty cool. Tho I am still waiting for a doc to wave a salt shaker over me to get all the biometric data he/she needs.
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