The Best Anchor
Medicine in all its glory, no matter the tech or bad eggs, is still about restoring a man’s life, his body and mind, to its normal state. Slowly but surely, medical doctors in all corners of the world are beginning to accept that just beyond the other members of the team they work within the hospital including the nurses and laboratory scientists, they have to deal with public opinion and political opinion, better put, court for favourable political will.
But this is not about the forced, sometimes laborious, romance between medicine and bureaucrats, with its many failings and ugly smoothening around the edges of everything. This is about the evolution that is sure to charge medicine as we know it and what falls off and what continues to stand. Biased, but I think many parts of medicine will stand the first few waves of the many intrusions (do not read as insults).
A part stands as king amongst the favoured survivors - basic clinical sciences. Pharmacology, Immunology, histopathology, chemical pathology, etc. These basic clinical science fields of study will really define the pace of the future of medicine and whatever innovative care it can offer when merged, either forefuclly or naturally, with changes. It is already beautiful that biomedical scientists can perfectly work with doctors in those fields to offer improved care as the fusion of competent minds can only portend a better future for this part of medicine.
Now, imagine AI, still seems futuristic but I would imagine it is getting closer, with the evangelism of its many use cases in medicine from nursing care to drug dispensing to medical research and so much more. A fusion of the favoured survivors with AI, and many other changes that might align with medicine on its journey, will perhaps have the greatest benefits where the basic clinical science field enjoys a huge effect.
How do we prepare for this? First my country and continent. I am, and will always be a proponent that medical students should no longer be tied to writing final year dissertations in public health anymore especially not with the lopsided political will healthcare ‘enjoys’ in most of the countries. Rather, students should be allowed to carry out projects as far back as basic medical sciences like biochemistry, physiology and histology.
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