What good is innovative technology if patients do no feel cared for? Via [WIRED UK]
Throughout history, we have been much better at developing technology than thinking through the consequences of it. I think there’s a danger of that happening in relation to health care.
First, it depends on people wanting to monitor their health status continuously. There’s often an assumption that we all want to receive daily, weekly, or monthly readouts of our health. Actually, a lot of people feel that continually interrogating their health would be a source of anxiety. Take blood tests for cancer. People often talk as if it’s as simple as detecting cancer and getting treatment for it. But the reality is that blood tests will only give you a certain probability that you might have early-stage cancer. We won’t know how the cancer is going to develop or if we should wait or seek treatment, which might be invasive and have side effects. So the science of diagnosis is only one part of a deeper and broader diagnostic shift.
Often there’s a distinction made between medicine and care: Medicine is kind of technocratic and scientific, while care is human and relational. Generally, care is what matters most to people. When you ask people whether they are satisfied with their treatment, they’re much more likely to talk about the care they received than the technical medical proficiency. In the end, medicine will fail us all, but care can be victorious right up to the end.
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