19 Jan 2013

BERMUDA: Dr.Sidney LOWRY:"The End of Medicine & the Last Doctor"


From the  Bermuda ROYAL GAZETTE

Are machines replacing your doctor?

 
  • Could robots like this one day replace humans as doctors? File picture.


It's looking like the end of an era for patient-doctor relationships in the hands-on way that we have grown up with, according to Sidney Lowry, a former Edward VII Memorial Hospital oncologist.
Patients are increasingly demanding test results and place much less weight on a doctor's physical examination findings, Dr Lowry believes.
He's put his views in a new book, ‘The End of Medicine and the Last Doctor'.
“Patients no longer want to be examined. They want an MRI,” he said. “The physician is being gradually replaced by a range of health professionals, and the machine.

Dr Lowry contends that technological advancements are well on the way to displacing the traditional physician.






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