The Guide to the Future of Medicine Quotes

“Being born without a limb or losing one in an accident will soon not be a major disadvantage. As technology improves at a fast rate, these may even augment normal human capabilities. The real question facing us is not whether technology will be able to help such patients, but how to persuade healthy people in the near future not to change their own limbs to smart, state–of–the–art prosthetics.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“A clinic in Bolivia 140 kilometers from the nearest city prints out splints and prostheses when supplies are low. The cost per piece runs about 2 cents for the plastic. This might allow developing nations to circumvent having to import large numbers of supplies. Already, 3D printing is occurring in underdeveloped areas. “Not Impossible Labs” based in Venice, California took 3D printers to Sudan where the chaos of war has left many people with amputated limbs. The organization’s founder, Mick Ebeling, trained locals how to operate the machinery, create patient–specific limbs, and fit these new, very inexpensive prosthetics.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Participatory Medicine is a model of cooperative health care that seeks to achieve active involvement by patients, professionals, caregivers, and others across the continuum of care on all issues related to an individual’s health. Participatory medicine is an ethical approach to care that also holds promise to improve outcomes, reduce medical errors, increase patient satisfaction and improve the cost of care.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“• Brain Computer Interface Race: Contestants will be equipped with brain–computer interfaces that will enable them to control an avatar in a racing game played on computers. • Functional Electrical Stimulation Bike Race: Contestants with complete spinal cord injuries will be equipped with Functional Electrical Stimulation devices, which will enable them to perform pedaling movements on a cycling device that drives them on a circular course. • Leg Prosthetics Race: It will involve an obstacle course featuring slopes, steps, uneven surfaces, and straight sprints. • Powered Exoskeleton Race: Contestants with complete thoracic or lumbar spinal cord injuries will be equipped with actuated exoskeletal devices, which will enable them to walk along a particular race course. • Powered Wheelchair Race: A similar obstacle course featuring a variety of surfaces and environments. • Arm Prosthetics Race: Pilots with forearm or upper arm amputations will be equipped with actuated exoprosthetic devices and will have to successfully complete two hand–arm task courses as quickly as possible.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“On the 8th of October in 2016, Zurich, Switzerland will host the first championship sports event under the name Cybathlon for parathletes using high–tech prostheses, exoskeletons, and other robotic and assistive devices. This”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Imagine a retinal chip giving you perfect eye sight or the ability to see in the dark; a cochlear implant giving you perfect hearing; a memory chip giving you almost limitless memory. Such brain implants will not be the first neuroprosthetics given that those have been around commercially for three decades. Examples include cochlear implants, and now retinal implants which were first approved by the FDA in 2013. Implants”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“In 2013, 96% of all connected wearable devices were activity trackers, 3% were smartwatches, and 1% were smart glasses. Tellingly, 82% of users believe that wearable tech has enhanced their lives. By 2017, 64 million shipments of such devices are expected (8 times larger than in 2012). Global spending on wearable technology is estimated to be $19 billion by 2018.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Usually it takes 4 to 6 years to become a doctor, and another 5 to 10 years to become a specialist. Trying to remember what the world looked like 4 or 6 years ago I recall no widespread use of smartphones, tablets, Google Glass, social media, or artificial intelligence. That is how much the world can change in a few years’ time. The rate of change is even faster now. Current curriculum does not prepare students for these even though new applications and technologies are becoming a crucial part of the medical profession. It is time to change and actually re–think the basics of what we call medical education.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“The human touch is there, it has worked for long, sitting by the patient’s bedside and trying to lift their spirits. Although with the advances of human genomics, parts of the process have become automated, medical professionals cannot practice the way they used to, it is no longer the same human contact that we had before. Patients usually get interested in new technologies first; therefore there is a constant request that physicians start using them. Medical professionals don’t have to get detailed training about how magnetic resonance imaging works, they just need to know why it works.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Medical education has to make sure that it trains good medical professionals who can secondarily deal with technology.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Providing an identical range of services in every hospital regardless of actual needs in a given population does not bode well for future healthcare systems worldwide. Creating networks of institutions focusing on different aspects of medicine might be a better solution.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“When I asked him about the key for solving medical/scientific problems that seem too futuristic now, his response was direct and on the spot: “Believing that you can.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Regulation of medical apps that does not limit their capabilities would have benefits for all stakeholders.   The Labonfoil device analyzing smart cards.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“He is famous for saying that these days he prescribes a lot more applications than medications to his patients.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“crowdsource the very best of medical research in a customized way for them. Instead of manually typing data via keyboard, let’s speed up the process and make it more interactive through augmented reality. Doing that, the doctor can look the patient in the eye and engage their problems in a conversational manner.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“I think I might tell my children in 10 years that the early 2010s was a barbaric era”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Yet new technologies have not really changed the way we organize healthcare.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Twitter”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Now smartphones track health parameters and record electrocardiograms (ECG).”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Eighteen years later I work and sometimes seem to live online in order to experience a world seemingly without limitations.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Today,”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“the art of medicine”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“provide a good care for patients.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“accept that their use is crucial to”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“relationship based on trust, it is also possible to employ increasingly safe technologies”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“My mission is to prove them wrong.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“mutual.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“usually think that technology and the human touch are incompatible.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“model of medicine can be improved upon by innovative and disruptive technologies.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“People have an innate propensity to interact with one another; therefore we need empathy”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch