Human touch could be saved by using robots
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《英国医生杂志》
EDITOR—When I had surgery at one of the best hospitals in the United States, I saw my surgeon twice for two minutes. After the first day, I rarely saw a nurse. But when I walked around, the nurses were busy documenting information on computers. In the meantime when my fellow patients found out I was a doctor, they barraged me with questions about their illnesses and operations.
In these days when the bureaucrats won't pay you until you write every tiny detail down, may I suggest that we use robots to document the details, so we get paid, rather than get the robots to allow doctors to check and interact with their patients after surgery?1 Let the doctors and nurses do what they went into medicine for in the first place: to care for people in those low tech and low paying jobs such as talking, rubbing where it hurts, and giving sympathy and comfort to the families who visit.
Nancy K O'Connor, doctor
Pawhuska Indian Health Center, Pawhuska, OK 74056, USA NOcon6929@aol.com
Competing interests: None declared.
References
Dobson R. Meet Rudy, the world's first "robodoc." BMJ 2004;329: 474-b. (28 August.)
In these days when the bureaucrats won't pay you until you write every tiny detail down, may I suggest that we use robots to document the details, so we get paid, rather than get the robots to allow doctors to check and interact with their patients after surgery?1 Let the doctors and nurses do what they went into medicine for in the first place: to care for people in those low tech and low paying jobs such as talking, rubbing where it hurts, and giving sympathy and comfort to the families who visit.
Nancy K O'Connor, doctor
Pawhuska Indian Health Center, Pawhuska, OK 74056, USA NOcon6929@aol.com
Competing interests: None declared.
References
Dobson R. Meet Rudy, the world's first "robodoc." BMJ 2004;329: 474-b. (28 August.)