Machine replacing anesthesiologists?

[hoosierdoc]

New machine could one day replace anesthesiologists - The Washington Post

Interesting concept. We need to accept that the era of medicine is changing. It's absurd to claim that a machine could replace a doctor. It can perform some of the functions the doctor performs, but "replace" is silly. I sedate my own patients for procedures using the dreaded propofol...

i also scoff at the $150 charge. Ain't nothing $150 in a procedure that involves a machine. I would love to see the line item claiming $150. My wife's PCA was nearly $1000 and she never used it after a c-section.

 

[D-Ric902]

I could imagine the liability insurance for that one.
that would play really well in court

 

[HoughMade]

Johnson & Johnson....won approval by agreeing to have an anesthesiology doctor or nurse on-call in case of emergencies

Oh, that'll solve everything. Who gets sued when the patient has an idiosyncratic reaction to an anesthetic agent, goes hypotensive and gorks (a technical term) before the "on call" anesthesiologist gets there and up to speed? I would guess the surgeon.

 

[mbills2223]

I get told that a machine will replace my on a weekly basis lol

 

[HoughMade]

Damn you "Legal Zoom"

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Seems like I saw a headline not too long ago about IBM's Watson was being brought to bear in healthcare. I can't say to what degree though.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Replace? Not never but not soon. Hybridization? Soon. Competent human + competent machine = better results than either alone. Computers will never be doctors, cops, etc until they can learn to detect lies.

Doctors, how many people lie to you every day about their diet, exercise, sexual encounters, vice habits, etc and if you believed them how often would it affect the treatment for the worse?

 

[mbills2223]

Replace? Not never but not soon. Hybridization? Soon. Competent human + competent machine = better results than either alone. Computers will never be doctors, cops, etc until they can learn to detect lies.

Doctors, how many people lie to you every day about their diet, exercise, sexual encounters, vice habits, etc and if you believed them how often would it affect the treatment for the worse?

I'm allergic to everything except demerol

 

[wassup61]

Replace? Not never but not soon. Hybridization? Soon. Competent human + competent machine = better results than either alone. Computers will never be doctors, cops, etc until they can learn to detect lies.

Doctors, how many people lie to you every day about their diet, exercise, sexual encounters, vice habits, etc and if you believed them how often would it affect the treatment for the worse?

Mechanical and procedural safeguard. ... yes.
Total replacement. ... no

Work with these types of things daily

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Replace? Not never but not soon. Hybridization? Soon. Competent human + competent machine = better results than either alone. Computers will never be doctors, cops, etc until they can learn to detect lies.

Doctors, how many people lie to you every day about their diet, exercise, sexual encounters, vice habits, etc and if you believed them how often would it affect the treatment for the worse?

I remember because my wife loved the show but Dr. House said everybody lies.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Replace? Not never but not soon. Hybridization? Soon. Competent human + competent machine = better results than either alone. Computers will never be doctors, cops, etc until they can learn to detect lies.

Doctors, how many people lie to you every day about their diet, exercise, sexual encounters, vice habits, etc and if you believed them how often would it affect the treatment for the worse?

Hybridization would be key. We are forced to use computers so much it's getting absurd. Now that everything is digital we have to time stamp everything and they can get a billion metrics and then complain that eight of them are too slow and we need to speed up, by forcing us to document more

"Legal zoom" reference... That explains all the out of work lawyers I see holding signs on the off ramps

 

[HoughMade]

.."Legal zoom" reference... That explains all the out of work lawyers I see holding signs on the off ramps

I-65 at U.S. 30 in about 20 minutes.