Such issues arise when we start thinking through technology, and, expect technology to do the hard work for us.
Will technology oblige and make clinical medicine its appendage. Or will technology will forever remain an appendage of medicine?
The age of exponentiality is in the making; this also refers to exponential medicine. The outcome of medical exponentiality is an informed guess, which very much depends on a new health paradigm, physicians education and investments into holistic technology applications. At the moment, humanistic thought and will are not strong enough to turn the cards around; medical thought is still caught in the industrial paradigm of the 'car repair workshop', but we will move closer to a 'clinical revolution', within 10-20 years.
The age of exponentiality is in the making; this also refers to exponential medicine. The outcome of medical exponentiality is an informed guess, which very much depends on a new health paradigm, physicians education and investments into holistic technology applications. At the moment, humanistic thought and will are not strong enough to turn the cards around; medical thought is still caught in the industrial paradigm of the 'car repair workshop', but we will move closer to a 'clinical revolution', within 10-20 years.
We have to try to reduce the technology made medicine soon.
The side effects of such medicines are increased by different added chemicals of food and drinks, xenobiotic residues etc.
Development of Superbugs is one such aspect.
Lifestyle modification and use of natural medicine and genetics - based treatment of patients will be the ultimate treatment system in future.
Medicine is the art of probabilities, and, the ability to think through a set of data and differential diagnoses - both common and uncommon - is a much valued and prized commodity in clinical medicine, and, even more importantly in medical research, where an unimaginable mass of data is available in the laboratory and at the desktop at the click of a mouse.
The age of Aquarius is dawned upon Earth. Aquarius is associated with electricity, computers, flight, democracy, freedom, humanitarianism, idealism, modernization, astrology, nervous disorders, rebellion, nonconformity, philanthropy, veracity, perseverance, humanity, and irresolution.
The renaissance of technology has cut humans down to size, cerebrally and in terms of mechanistic prowess having torn the heart out of non-mathematical logic. A bewildering world of mechatronics has emerged. Mechatronics, which is also called mechatronic engineering, is a multidisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the engineering of both electrical and mechanical systems, and also includes a combination of robotics, electronics, computer, telecommunications, systems, control, and product engineering.
At the advent of the fMRI and GWAS studies and PCR and equivalent technologies, no medical problem appeared invincible. Having run through this gamut, we have become stuck in the rut of our own inventions, facing as we do an onslaught of data that appear to inundate through a massive impenetrable confusion.
The 3-D printer has reduced the gap between the art and science of humans, and along with robotic news readers, robotic surgery, and precision-designed artificial limbs and nerve/spinal/brainstem/cardiac chip implants has impelled humans to think beyond fervidly.
The science of humans has become subservient to technology in an unmappable terrain and to a haunting accelerating degree. There is a basic, most fundamental difference between physical and natural sciences. While exponential serves its purpose in physical science, it is a maverick unfortunately mathematical expression when used for natural/biological sciences.
In a nutshell, mathematics has kidnapped medicine and biology. The extraction of a heavy price is inevitable in terms of the lost opportunity for the lost generations that could not benefit from the surfeit of redundant and reiterative and untrammelled data that characterizes our era and forces us into submission. Now progress in Medicine is tragically reduced to the "falling apple" serendipity into the cauldron of infinite and still mounting confusion. Unlike fire, that can be fought with fire, data cannot be fought with data. Data can be fought with the one thing that technology cannot ever impart or overpower or usurp. Imagination, imagination that can conceive the whole out of the hyperfragmentation created by data, imagination that can conquer galaxies. Syntheses over analyses.
This is the method out of this madness of technology that has gripped our collective consciousness with a relentless iron grip. There always will be such a method, if we as a race must survive.
@ Dr. Shibabrata Pattanayak
Your statement appears to me to be plausible. In addition to what all you have already mentioned, I would like to add the following.
We need to focus more and more towards understanding and prevention of diseases than cure.
It is likely that industry will not be interested in generating knowledge towards prevention. I believe required support for this should come from the Governments. This can either happen through direct funding and/or through legislation to the effect that Corporate Social Responsibility Funds from industries belonging to a certain sector, are exclusively used for this purpose.
The first step for prevention is to understand the basic fundamentals of any illness. This thread is discussing this aspect yet.
Prevention is extremely essential. From my viewpoint, obesity is the biggest public health problem that is gradually increasing, rather rapidly increasing, in its morbidity and mortality. There is nothing to understand basically in obesity. We may keep on adding data, like leptins, to no avail. Data do not change public perception. The largest number of marathons are also held in the US of A, again, to no avail. Oxygen therapy gyms and physical exercise gyms and counsellors and quirky diets also abound in North America, again, to no avail. Internet penetration is the maximum in North America and Europe, where the incidence of obesity, right from school children, is to be seen to be believed.
The US of A has the largest segment of obese population with the most public health care system possible, including scientists and physicians and neurologists and endocrinologists.
More, on this later.
Respected Dr. Bandyopadhyay Sir,
I agree with you.
Personally, I have tried a lot to start o project on use of succulent herbs as medicines, but fail to start it. I have communicated with Department of
Aayush, Governor, P. M office, C.M, West Bengal - but perhaps fail to motivate the people deal with such letters/ files.
Perhaps no research administrator of India is ready to think anything outside the traditional way of of thinking.
I think I can offer the idea with detail guidelines for research and development of cheap medicines to the research communities of the world within a few months.
Thanks.
Vinod Kumar Gupta
Very decisive argumentation of yours, especially on holistic imagination (to fight data fragmentation). Also full agreement with the medical sequence: prevention---early detection---cure---palliation. Let me note also that data science is based on the Gaussian normal distribution, which is not very applicable for non-deterministic (human) nature. At the end, a link for you :http://www.integralhealthcare.info/ , plus an article (pdf).
Dear Stephen
It is a fact. I will, of course, read your attached file also.
Thank you,
Regards.
I don't think medicine outcome technology as it is only a solution if it creates complexity then this is only because of practice
Many of the innovations in medicine are now dependent on technology. Radioisotope drugs or drugs required for very serious diseases involve the application of tech savvy solutions . Therefore, I personally think that technology will dominate medical outcomes and medicine just like other realms of human endeavors.
Till the point your patients needs or will need a radioisotope or oncolytic pharmacotherapy, lies a long and winding road, where the primary actors are, or should be, clinical skills combined with compassion, empathy, a willingness to acknowledge error, humility, and a I--- don't --- know---everything attitude.
Technology gives an arrogance that covers ignorance, in medicine and out of it. Technology makes you forget that one day you will replace the patient in the hospital bed, one day the roles will be reversed, and you will be at the receiving end in the cold dampness of the mortuary. --- I suggest to save this quote.
Medicine is not an addition to technique, nor vice versa. The procedures and methods of treatment are designed by doctors, and technicians are implementing their ideas in the work. Then could we say the same for education? ICT is irreplaceable today in education. Not that means! Is the content of learning more important?
Dear Slavoljub,
I think you have something important to say. Could you please state clearly for the benefit of all readers in this thread. We all want to benefit from your input. Content, technique, and learning are all important. Also define ICT.
Best.
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