Doctors in the distant future!

[mrwesticles]

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Having watched the new “Star Trek” movie again and seeing the hard work of Doctor McCoy, I was wondering what everyone thought medicine of the distant future would be like, and what I’ll be missing out on as a medical student with a normal life expectancy. Here are my guesses:

50 years - Streamlined patient encounters since Siri on your iPhone will be the first to see a patient.

150 years - Lasers will be both the cause and solution of most trauma cases.

1,000 years - Everything we know today will be obsolete, largely because the world is populated with giant mutants in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Still easier than med school.

Any other theories?

 

[CatFactorial]

Probably be saying "affirmative" instead of "yes," unless in a more colloquial situation.

 

[Flapjacks]

More vagina

 

[XRanger]

it's gonna be like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNs3YddRj8&feature=channel_video_title

 

[D elegans]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson

 

[Morsetlis]

Modern medicine as you know it hasn't been around very long. The changes between modern medicine and future medicine are likely to be as vast as the changes from trepanation to neurosurgery (hmm... now that I think about it...)

 

[sibitrum]

It might be interesting to consider the evolution of medical vs. surgical approaches. For instance, you could remotely control nanotechnology to treat patients. This would likely lead to a blending of surgical and medical modalities. Even today, you can see the line blurring in areas such as non-invasive surgery and angioplasties. Overall, I think this merging of fields is beneficial, because providers can better understand the many ways of treating a patient.