- Rise of AI and Automation in Healthcare: The increasing reliance on AI tools, algorithms, and wearable devices is raising questions about whether machines might one day replace doctors—especially in diagnosis and monitoring.
- Proliferation of Screening Tests: The current trend of undergoing routine whole-body scans and test panels, often without clear indications, is contributing to overdiagnosis, unnecessary treatments, and patient anxiety.
- Erosion of Clinical Judgment: The traditional art of clinical medicine—based on history-taking, examination, and intuition—is being diluted as clinicians lean more heavily on technology.
- Privacy and Data Ethics: With AI-driven health tech, patient data is being collected at an unprecedented scale, raising major concerns around privacy, consent, and misuse.
- Health Anxiety and False Alarms: Easy access to personal health metrics through wearables may trigger obsession, health anxiety, and medical consultations for harmless variations.
- Radiation Exposure from Unnecessary Imaging: Frequent scans (especially CTs) done without medical indication increase cumulative radiation exposure, posing long-term risks.
- Electromagnetic Exposure from Wearables: Long-term health effects of continuous EM exposure from wearable devices remain unclear and understudied. Further discussion is welcomed!
Abdul Saeed Shah
No doubt AI can assist diagnostic and therapeutic decesions making for the clinicians but that too in narrow and well defined tasks. However, the human aspects like empathy, communication, cultural sensitivities, physical examination and procedural skill will not be replaced by the AI and clinicians involment will remain critical.
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