[gusopol3]

The robot is what allowed Dr. Shatzel to “be” in the patient’s room far away. From an earlier telephone conversation with the emergency room doctor, the patient’s condition had not been clear. But in speaking directly with the patient, examining his face and control of his hands and glancing with the camera at the cardiac monitor in the room, Dr. Shatzel could assess the stroke, he said, with the same acuity as if he were there. He instructed the staff to administer the drug.

It sounds like an excellent way to devalue the input of his colleague.

[TigerLikesRooster]

In time, patients will only see interns and residents. Real doctors will be somewhere else dropping online via robot.

Surgery will be mostly done by remote-controlled robots. We all become joystick warriors.:-)