pre-emptive medicine
Artificial Intelligence in Pre-Emptive Medicine
Doctors are valued for our ability to use a combination of logic, memorised knowledge and communication skills to perform three main functions. The first is to diagnose a medical condition, the second is to treat it. The third, and most important function is to communicate information to another human being with empathy, in a way that's tailored to their ability to understand, and in a way which makes them feel cared for. With increasing demand for healthcare, and with stressed out doctors stretched ever thinner, the tendency is for doctors to concentrate on the diagnosing and treating. The emotional, concerned, human aspect of treating disease is neglected, but this function is the only one even the most advanced artificial intelligence is unlikely to ever genuinely perform. Medicine has long been considered an art, with "clinical acumen" the major skill of a doctor.