Comments on: If Doctors Need Pit Crews, Tricorders Should Be Part of the Team http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Vince http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/#comment-5259 Vince Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:03:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4378#comment-5259 Lots of patients are old fashioned specially in the third world. If they see you have to consult a book or worse a computer to google, you are percieved as less skilled than a doctor who instantly knows what to do by memory. Lots of patients are old fashioned specially in the third world. If they see you have to consult a book or worse a computer to google, you are percieved as less skilled than a doctor who instantly knows what to do by memory.

]]> By: Jonnie Boele http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/#comment-5258 Jonnie Boele Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:20:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4378#comment-5258 foundfor the most partwillgo alongwith your blog. foundfor the most partwillgo alongwith your blog.

]]> By: Vogie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/#comment-5257 Vogie Sat, 28 May 2011 02:59:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4378#comment-5257 @VinceRN Only if it was a cloud-based. Since we already have 64gb SSDs and smallscale solar technologies, what the person in the field would have is something very different than the device used in an expensive hospital. @VinceRN Only if it was a cloud-based. Since we already have 64gb SSDs and smallscale solar technologies, what the person in the field would have is something very different than the device used in an expensive hospital.

]]> By: Paul http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/#comment-5256 Paul Fri, 27 May 2011 12:31:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4378#comment-5256 Re: ST:TNG Of course, the sickbay was grotesquely inadequate for a crew that size, even allowing for technology. All of the Star Trek series still had patients coming in for every scraped shin and runny nose. It would have been more "realistic", and explained the lack of medical facilities, if the crew used the tricorders, replicators, and ship's scanners to self-diagnose. Only coming into the sick-bay for major problems, or where they couldn't treat yourself. When applying spray-on-skin is as easy as applying a bandaide, I should be able to treat cuts and scrapes myself. When diagnosis is via contactless scanners, and administering medication is a hypospray, why am I bothering the ship's senior medical specialist? {Scan}, {diagnose}, "You have Flendabian Influenza. Please administer prepared treatment", {replicate single-use hypospray with anti-virus}. All without leaving your room, or workplace. VinceRN, The developing world and disaster-zones is exactly where a portable medical scanner is most needed. Re: ST:TNG
Of course, the sickbay was grotesquely inadequate for a crew that size, even allowing for technology. All of the Star Trek series still had patients coming in for every scraped shin and runny nose. It would have been more “realistic”, and explained the lack of medical facilities, if the crew used the tricorders, replicators, and ship’s scanners to self-diagnose. Only coming into the sick-bay for major problems, or where they couldn’t treat yourself.

When applying spray-on-skin is as easy as applying a bandaide, I should be able to treat cuts and scrapes myself. When diagnosis is via contactless scanners, and administering medication is a hypospray, why am I bothering the ship’s senior medical specialist?

{Scan}, {diagnose}, “You have Flendabian Influenza. Please administer prepared treatment”, {replicate single-use hypospray with anti-virus}. All without leaving your room, or workplace.

VinceRN,
The developing world and disaster-zones is exactly where a portable medical scanner is most needed.

]]> By: VinceRN http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/#comment-5255 VinceRN Fri, 27 May 2011 06:28:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4378#comment-5255 Imagine you doctor of the future in some remote place with no electricity, nothing but a few tools and a few drugs and his education. That doctor, dependent on his tricorder, would be useless. Doctors still need to be doctors, and they must be able to function well without technology. Many disasters, natural and man made, can remove the cloud for quite a while. Doctors that don't practice without their tricorder will be useless. All that technology should never be more than a tool to help an educated human brain that is making the decisions. Imagine you doctor of the future in some remote place with no electricity, nothing but a few tools and a few drugs and his education. That doctor, dependent on his tricorder, would be useless. Doctors still need to be doctors, and they must be able to function well without technology. Many disasters, natural and man made, can remove the cloud for quite a while. Doctors that don’t practice without their tricorder will be useless. All that technology should never be more than a tool to help an educated human brain that is making the decisions.

]]> By: larrybuck http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/05/26/if-doctors-need-pit-crews-tricorders-should-be-part-of-the-team/#comment-5254 larrybuck Fri, 27 May 2011 06:01:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4378#comment-5254 Currently, the cost of health care is rising at a much higher rate than inflation. Even if we were to implement your beloved single payer, at a certain point we can not afford to pay for every new treatment and technology that comes along if we want to have any semblance of an economy. If you dont have insurance you should check out "Penny Health Insurance" for information on how to get one. Currently, the cost of health care is rising at a much higher rate than inflation. Even if we were to implement your beloved single payer, at a certain point we can not afford to pay for every new treatment and technology that comes along if we want to have any semblance of an economy. If you dont have insurance you should check out “Penny Health Insurance” for information on how to get one.

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