AI's Impact on Healthcare: Doctors, Technology, and Patient Care

This essay delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry, exploring how technology is reshaping the roles of doctors and influencing patient care. It examines the integration of AI in various aspects of medicine, from diagnosing illnesses like eye diseases and skin cancer to assisting in surgical procedures through robotic-assisted surgery. The essay discusses how AI can enhance doctors' diagnostic accuracy, improve the organization of patient treatment plans, and provide crucial information for decision-making. It contrasts the historical practices of medicine in 1970 with the anticipated advancements in 2060, emphasizing the need for doctors to adapt and acquire new skills, particularly in understanding and utilizing advanced technologies. The essay concludes that while AI will become an essential assistant to doctors, it will not replace them, as human expertise and judgment remain crucial for patient safety and effective treatment.

Doctor
In the healthcare industry, advancement in technology has changed the structure
drastically and AI has entered the hospitals around the world. In this sector, technology
change may lead to replacing the doctors in hospitals and clinics in some cases but will
not be able to take place of the doctor (Oakden-Rayner). AI helps in diagnosing some
illness; recent research has revealed that technology advancement helps in diagnosing
eye disease, skin cancer, and arrhythmias. In the future, the patients will interact with
medical AI for these problems. AI provides various benefits to doctors and helps them in
operating. It will help the physicians to make an accurate diagnosis as the system will
help in analyzing the problem and can start the treatment on time. Currently, surgeons
are using robots in operation theatre to help them in surgery but Doctors have control
over the machine and they perform as a slave, not as masters (Jaiprakash & Roberts).
In 1970, doctors were doing their work without any artificial intelligence and it was very
time consuming to do the treatment of patients. At that time, it was very difficult also to
diagnose the problems. An earlier doctor has to perform all the tasks and treatment of
the patients.
In 2060, operating robotic-assisted surgery will be done with the help of technology
advancement and may replace the surgeons. Automated dispensing robots may take
away the responsibilities of the doctors in administration as artificial intelligence would
enable the machines to make the serious decision in health care and also they will
coordinate with patient care, as the doctors are facing challenges because of the
integration of new technologies in their practice (Shavandi, Ghanbari, & Hadavandi,
2012). Till 2060 advanced technology will help in transcending the implementation and
perform an action to achieve the outcome.
In 2060, many different skills will be required for doctors than today. Understanding of
technology will be important. They will be required to learn computer skills to operate
advanced machines. Robots may be performing the various tasks and help in
diagnosing but doctors will be involved in the decision making processes.

In the future, doctors will remain relevant when the advanced technology will grow,
doctors can learn more about the healthcare technologies, how the technology will work
with the intelligence and they can search the ways to move the technologies to perform
the tasks which were performed by them daily. Artificial intelligence will help doctors in
improving the organization of patient’s ways and the patient’s treatment plans and AI
will also help in providing the relevant information to the physicians and doctors to make
the correct decisions.
AI can't replace the doctors but can make them better by learning advanced technology
as the machines help in collecting data and information of the patient and it will help in
diagnosing the problem easily. AI will become an important assistant of doctors in the
future (Marshall & Hanson, 2001). Patients will not be able to rely on the machines as
they are not always right as safety is the most important factor while taking care of the
patients.
So, for the treatment of the patients, humans are far better than the machines because
mistakes are avoidable in healthcare.

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