[LINK] Robots in health care could lead to a doctorless hospital

[Dr.bob Jansen]

Whenever I read about AI/robots taking over medicine, I am reminded by Mycin, one of the first medical AI systems concluding 'double the dose' when faced with a dead patient.

Sure, robot assisted surgery appears to be very useful, as does 'simple interpretation' such as the Garvan's thyroid system but I would be concerned by a non human diagnosis or treatment.

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> On 12 Feb 2016, at 11:40, Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Rather than a wing of a hospital - more useful would be remote care and operations. Imagine having 
> access to the best surgeons in your local library, school or [aged] care facility. Not having to fly 
> hundreds of kms or risking life and limb in traffic to have a baby.
> 
> A lot of surgery these days already involves robots.
>> Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery (MIS), bandaid surgery, or keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique in which operations are performed far from their location through small incisions (usually 0.5–1.5 cm) elsewhere in the body.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laparoscopic_surgery
> 
> Marghanita
>> On 12/02/16 13:15, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> Robots in health care could lead to a doctorless hospital
>> The Conversation
>> Anjali Jaiprakash
>> Jonathan Roberts
>> Ross Crawford
>> February 9, 2016 6.07am AED
>> https://theconversation.com/robots-in-health-care-could-lead-to-a-doctorless-hospital-54316
>> 
>> Imagine your child requires a life-saving operation. You enter the
>> hospital and are confronted with a stark choice.
>> 
>> Do you take the traditional path with human medical staff, including
>> doctors and nurses, where long-term trials have shown a 90% chance that
>> they will save your child’s life?
>> 
>> Or do you choose the robotic track, in the factory-like wing of the
>> hospital, tended to by technical specialists and an array of robots, but
>> where similar long-term trials have shown that your child has a 95%
>> chance of survival?
>> 
>> Most rational people would opt for the course of action that is more
>> likely to save their child. But are we really ready to let machines take
>> over from a human in delivering patient care?
>> 
>> Of course, machines will not always get it right. But like autopilots in
>> aircraft, and the driverless cars that are just around the corner,
>> medical robots do not need to be perfect, they just have to be better
>> than humans.
>> 
>> So how long before robots are shown to perform better than humans at
>> surgery and other patient care? It may be sooner, or it may be later,
>> but it will happen one day.
>> 
>> But what does this mean for our hospitals? Are the new hospitals being
>> built now ready for a robotic future? Are we planning for large-scale
>> role changes for the