Bertalan Mesko: The Guide to the Future of Medicine |
New technologies will finally help medical professionals focus more on the patient as a human being instead of spending time hunting down pertinent information. They will be able to do what they do best: provide care with expertise. In turn, patients will get the chance to be equal partners in this process taking matters into their own hands.
Loc. 143-45
People usually think that technology and the human touch are incompatible. My mission is to prove them wrong.
Loc. 100-101
The rapidly advancing changes to healthcare pose a serious threat to the human touch, the so-called art of medicine. This we cannot let happen. People have an innate propensity to interact with one another; therefore we need empathy and intimate words from our caregivers when we’re ill and vulnerable.
Loc. 97-99