From the Bermuda ROYAL GAZETTE
Are machines replacing your doctor?
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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.
