Future of Medicine or musings of a hypochondriac?
Monday, 17. August 2009, 18:23:27
Where is medical treatment headed? An easy guess will be that there will be progress on labor reduction and sensor development that will have tremendous impact on the way we diagnose medical ailments. Presently when a doctor sees a patient for the examination of an ailment, the doctor often start his observation of the patient at this meeting, generally the Doctor has the patients medical history along with some readings temperature, and pulse taken a few minutes earlier by a nurse.
Soon when we start to feel the effects of an ailment we will put on or already have on sensory devices that are similar to sensor's that athletes to day wear to monitor their cardiovascular system, these sensors will monitor, pulse, and audibly monitor the air flow to both lungs, listening for bronchial congestion, our temperature will be monitored, the saline content of sweat will be determined, and possibly our neuro system will be monitored for activity. We will have multi purpose one time use ingestible capsules that will monitor our digestive tract, monitor various aspects of our digestion and these sensor capsules will search for infections of our digestive tract. These ingested capsules will also take blood samples from our stool to measure changes in our blood cell count, these sensor capsules will also look for cancerous cells in our waste. If the person being monitored is not able to digest a sensor capsule. A disposable capsule could be dropped into the toilet to make measurements of passed waste.
Soon when a call is made to see a Doctor or a nurse, the medical practicinor will have at an instant all the data provided by the sensors and often will be able to make a diagnoses without an office visit. Some people might even choose to leave the medical people out of the loop and make their own diagnoses. Our present medical system with all it's degrees and certifications is less than one hundred years old. We might decide that outside of surgery and broken bones "who needs a doctor?", along with the expensive medical and insurance system, and along with the waiting periods and expenses. After all we can read the results of a computer monitor ourselves.
meda tags health medicine future sensor labor
Soon when we start to feel the effects of an ailment we will put on or already have on sensory devices that are similar to sensor's that athletes to day wear to monitor their cardiovascular system, these sensors will monitor, pulse, and audibly monitor the air flow to both lungs, listening for bronchial congestion, our temperature will be monitored, the saline content of sweat will be determined, and possibly our neuro system will be monitored for activity. We will have multi purpose one time use ingestible capsules that will monitor our digestive tract, monitor various aspects of our digestion and these sensor capsules will search for infections of our digestive tract. These ingested capsules will also take blood samples from our stool to measure changes in our blood cell count, these sensor capsules will also look for cancerous cells in our waste. If the person being monitored is not able to digest a sensor capsule. A disposable capsule could be dropped into the toilet to make measurements of passed waste.
Soon when a call is made to see a Doctor or a nurse, the medical practicinor will have at an instant all the data provided by the sensors and often will be able to make a diagnoses without an office visit. Some people might even choose to leave the medical people out of the loop and make their own diagnoses. Our present medical system with all it's degrees and certifications is less than one hundred years old. We might decide that outside of surgery and broken bones "who needs a doctor?", along with the expensive medical and insurance system, and along with the waiting periods and expenses. After all we can read the results of a computer monitor ourselves.
meda tags health medicine future sensor labor
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