The next medical frontier: computer and robotic-enhanced health care.
Anesthesia, antiseptics, vaccines, sulfa drugs and other technological marvels of their day forever changed the practice of medicine. Technology was the motor of change for medicine in times past and will be for medicine in the future. A look at the health-care delivery system of the next 50 years, by one of America's foremost health-care futurists, shows that these medical changes are only limited by our imagination.
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