?Tomorrow's doctors will be replaced by machines, so their role will be that of advisor"

Machines could gradually come to replace doctors, usurping their technical and surgical know-how. However, this could be good news for the patient. Doctors would be more available to counsel and reassure their patients. In this way, machines deployed in the medical field could actually help to bring more of a human touch to the doctor-patient relationship. This is the prediction put forward by Guy Vallancien – a surgeon, member of the French National Academy of Medicine and President of the European School of Surgery – in his book'La médecine sans médecin.