Is there an APP that takes all the symptoms and illnesses in the world into a database-AI algorithm to make statistical and differential diagnoses; some sort of a symptoms calculator that takes into account what we know about a patient (symptoms, vitals, MD hx, etc) and can make diagnosis better than doctors?
I agree with this. I'm not sure Watson can take that stuff into account, lol, most doctors wouldn't check those boxes anyway, that's the kind of thing people under less stringent ethics would care more about. The doctor will just have Watson help, and then look at it themselves. I'm not convinced it will initially save any time. I mean, Watson is going to have to be f good before a physician is going to give up diagnosis. They are generally dead serious. How are you going to convince them that Watson save time rather than acts as a failsafe or insurance against missing something obvious?
If they can have a machine that is able to perform investigations like take bloods and scan body parts, Stitch wounds, make surgical incisions to biopsy cancer cells without spreading material around, inject local anaesthesia without stabbing joints, muscle sheaths, nerves, blood vessels, organs, or if so doing, able to patch them asap, tie small knots fast and sterilise themselves, replenish their stocks, and prep their supplies and check that everything is safe and not broken/contaminated, take care of their waste etc Be small enough to walk around and do all that, yeah why not. Or maybe turn it all into a giant conveyor system and be able to do all that, would be good.
Is there an APP that takes all the symptoms and illnesses in the world into a database-AI algorithm to make statistical and differential diagnoses; some sort of a symptoms calculator that takes into account what we know about a patient (symptoms, vitals, MD hx, etc) and can make diagnosis better than doctors?
I agree with this. I'm not sure Watson can take that stuff into account, lol, most doctors wouldn't check those boxes anyway, that's the kind of thing people under less stringent ethics would care more about. The doctor will just have Watson help, and then look at it themselves. I'm not convinced it will initially save any time. I mean, Watson is going to have to be f good before a physician is going to give up diagnosis. They are generally dead serious. How are you going to convince them that Watson save time rather than acts as a failsafe or insurance against missing something obvious?
If they can have a machine that is able to perform investigations like take bloods and scan body parts, Stitch wounds, make surgical incisions to biopsy cancer cells without spreading material around, inject local anaesthesia without stabbing joints, muscle sheaths, nerves, blood vessels, organs, or if so doing, able to patch them asap, tie small knots fast and sterilise themselves, replenish their stocks, and prep their supplies and check that everything is safe and not broken/contaminated, take care of their waste etc
Be small enough to walk around and do all that, yeah why not.
Or maybe turn it all into a giant conveyor system and be able to do all that, would be good.
"Will intelligent machines replace doctors in the future?" No.
The ability to come up with an accurate diagnosis is just one aspect of being a doctor.
Marjon Chua it's actually the most important one. the hand holding can be done by other people.
fmanh Your right, in the end its about doing the job. Not holding the patients hand.
A.I. in, humans out.😑✌