The Robots Are Coming! by Andres Oppenheimer

Author:Andres Oppenheimer [Oppenheimer, Andres]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

TECHNOLOGY WILL REPLACE 80 PERCENT OF WHAT DOCTORS DO

Vinod Khosla, the Silicon Valley medical technology tycoon and cofounder of Sun Microsystems, has predicted that technology will eventually replace 80 percent of what doctors currently do. But this doesn’t mean that 80 percent of doctors will lose their jobs, he says. Rather, it means that many of the routine tasks they perform—such as checkups, tests, diagnoses, prescription of drugs, behavior modification programs, and data centralization—will be performed much more efficiently by intelligent machines.

“Most doctors couldn’t possibly read and digest all of the latest 5,000 research articles on heart disease,” Khosla argues. “And, most of the average doctor’s medical knowledge is from when they were in medical school, while cognitive limitations prevent them from remembering the 10,000+ diseases humans can get.”

To back up his argument, Khosla points out that more people die today due to errors by doctors and nurses than they do from many diseases. According to a study by Johns Hopkins, as many as 40,500 people in the United States die every year in an ICU due to misdiagnoses, rivaling the number of deaths from breast cancer. Medicine should therefore be less intuitive and more scientific, Khosla says. We should forget about the television series House—in which the main character was incredibly rude but had a remarkable ability to solve complex medical cases—and start to let computers handle most tasks that are currently performed by doctors.

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