iPhones replacing your Doctor

[KSaiyu]

In Air Cadets Aged 13 I learned to use one of those defibrillator

I think all kids should be taught how to use one. I haven't been trained since my hospital has its own crash team/crash trolleys but I use this to add to BLS just in case I'll have to use one in public.

 

[SniperRed3]

I don't want an Iphone to be a doctor I want the I phone to educate people with medical emergencies and conditions. My father and I went to the doctors I had a chest infection at the time and reported my symptoms My dad sitting here completely lost. I then asked Doxycycline My doctor looked Surprised and Relieved. After my dad said Why did you ask for that particular drug when I was 15 I just sat there and said what hurts. I replied with we are currently facing a shortage of antibiotics and I know that Doxycycline works for me Why waste my time with whatever he is getting paid to give me for the benefit of lining the drug companies pockets. One course of antibiotics later I'm fine.

 

[KSaiyu]

I'm currently working on the technology to make this possible to some degree.

Phones or computers won't replace a doctor anytime soon, however they will cut down on doctor office visits. E-visits will start to become more common over the next few years and will leave office visits for actual physical examinations instead of follow up visits where the doctor just asks you a handful of questions or goes over your lab results. This will also help people who don't have adequate access to providers due to geographical location to be able to connect with a physician easier.

Right now there's no plans that I know of to have phones or computers completely take over the healthcare process, any good health system wouldn't push for it either since the provider/patient relationship is still needed for proper care.

This was something I only saw today, and wasn't aware it was as advanced as you say. Sensationalist headlines are everywhere.

I don't want an Iphone to be a doctor I want the I phone to educate people with medical emergencies and conditions.

We'll never not have doctors. What they provide however, I do see changing.

 

[TenEightyOne]

In Air Cadets Aged 13 I learned to use one of those defibrillator

Now it's a course that lasts a couple of minutes... and with an AED you don't actually need any training. When you open the bag there's a diagram and everything.

Damn thing's very clever too, you can't even defibrillate someone's head for a joke*.


*I don't know anyone who's tried this.

 

[BobK]

Yep, it's a genuine problem that a lot of people don't know the difference between Urgent Care Centres and A+E. Who would have thought they'd just need to figure out what the A and E meant..

I have no idea what an Urgent Care Centre is, but I can probably guess from the name. Never heard of (an) A+E. Consequently I have no clue what the difference is. Is that a problem?

 

[SniperRed3]

An Urgent Care Centre is like A&E But worse They have them next to A&E and have mostly run my private firms I believe. Oh, and they're terrible

 

[KSaiyu]

I have no idea what an Urgent Care Centre is, but I can probably guess from the name. Never heard of (an) A+E. Consequently I have no clue what the difference is. Is that a problem?

In the UK it's universally known (at least I hope it is) that it's Accident and Emergency, kinda like your ER or ED.

 

[FoolKiller]

No. Plain and simple. No. Doctors are not just spewing out diseases that match a list of symptoms that they have memorized. What you get with a doctor is experience based knowledge and skill.

Short of some sort of highly advanced automated full-body scan that a computer can read and identify abnormalities you will require that expertise.

The most you could do with a full set of internal sensors connected to an iPhone is get a list of conditions based on probability. That list will go from a cold to cancer.

And god help anyone with a combination of things that combined mimic something else.

As for AEDs: It does one simple task. It judges if you are in a life-threatening arrhythmia, and applies a shock if you are. That is 20-year-old technology. The box is as big as it is so that it is idiot-proof for an amateur using it. The actual technology can fit between the rib cage and the skin, and that's with other systems in place as well. An AED or an ICD/Pacemaker are great emergency technologies designed to react faster than an emergency responder. They are not remotely close to being an electrophysiologist. In fact, I was once misdiagnosed by my ICD and unnecessarily shocked. I was in an arrhythmia, but not an immediately life threatening one and it read it incorrectly. I was shocked, but all it did was make me scream and involuntarily jump back about three feet.



As for the quote in the OP, I know this isn't the context it is intended, but you already are the CEO of your own health, whether you want to be or not. You can demand every byte of data on your health from your doctor, you can get second, third, and fourth opinions, you can travel the globe until you get a satisfactory answer, and you can fire your doctor. If you aren't already acting like the CEO of your own health, then you are being ridiculous. It is your life and your body. You have to be comfortable enough to have faith in your doctor, and smart enough to walk out if you don't.

 

[KSaiyu]

No. Plain and simple. No. Doctors are not just spewing out diseases that match a list of symptoms that they have memorized. What you get with a doctor is experience based knowledge and skill.

That's my point - it is their experience that figures predominantly in consultations. With a computer you could have access to unbiased facts, and it would be a stretch to imagine that sometime soon the decisions made could be less fallible than a doctors?

 

[FSportIS]

No, as much as i love the technology, data analysis and this idea, I don't think and don't want technology to replace any doctor. This is not a feasible solution at all. Even if there is such technology, the application and usage of it will be complicated enough that users make errors and end up ruining their health.

Health issues should be handled by certified doctors, not a silly iPhone lol.

Also, in computer, there is 1 and 0, yes and no. In health issue, it is a dynamic process that involve diagnosis, treatment, monitoring etc which requires lot of decision making and computer can NOT make decision.

Computer are stupid slaves that follow exact coding that human feed them,computer can NOT think nor make any decision. plain and simple.

 

[FoolKiller]

House.0

 

[sumbrownkid]

As much as technology can surpass the human intellect, people would rather have the human touch when it comes to things like, well, such as this.

Even the best of computers can make calculating errors. Because they are man made at the end of the day.