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They serve as pillars of wisdom and guidance while exhibiting communication adroitness with care teams and patients to engineer top-notch medical care. To maintain high standards, effective medical professionals are constantly taking in new information through continuing education, placing providers at the pinnacle of knowledge. Moreover, physicians require affective aptitude as they must convey empathy during patient interactions. All these attributes draw me to seek the personal challenge and resulting responsibilities that are demanded. I desire to become an important contribution to society in a field I am passionate

Accompanying with the enormous technological progress, medicine as a modern science has been affected in many positive ways. However, the timeless tradition and the everlasting secret of medicine is merely care giving. Modern medicine has been relying too much on technology, which is cool, but also very cold from a humanistic aspect. All the patients are presented by a series of numbers via binary signals of the internet. Nowadays, medicine is more about running tests and diagnosing based on numbers, as opposed to investigating symptoms upon the physician’s observational skills and comprehensive knowledge. As bedside caring becomes less concerned as it was in the old days, the diminishing of the sense of caring in medical professionals appears as a side effect. There is no doubt that technology enables medical professionals to perform all types of fancy tasks, though it is their offering of compassion that comforts the patients the most. And this quintessence of medical practice ought not to be overlooked at any point of the history of medicine.

For as long as I could remember, I have seen my father rushing to the hospital in a white coat, answering pagers in the middle of important family conversations and attending night calls even in the most terrible weather. I had always wondered; what could be so important that it belittles every other responsibility in his life. It was only after many years of anguish and protests that it finally made sense to me. This defining moment of realization occurred when I first met a patient in his office. I saw how the gratitude in the patient’s eyes can provide a sense of fulfillment that triumphs all other feelings in the universe. It was human life that was most important. Being a doctor does not make you a mere healer but also gives you the responsibility of a caregiver. I had never felt more proud of my father and that was the day I felt the urge to relive this feeling many times over. It was there in that moment that I decided to pursue a career in medicine.

Over the past decade, virtually every major industry invested heavily in computerization. The heath care industry was no exception to the rise in the use of technology. These technologies are starting to allow health care practitioners to offer faster, and more efficient patient care than ever before. No doubt this is the right direction we expect health care to follow.

The demand for success encourages us to develop paths that matches our human identities. As technology continues to advance, there is a greater emphasis regarding the power of attachment. Humans are slowly becoming more attached and dependent on technology. Individuals lose their values among technology because it affects every aspect of their lives. For instance, our reliance on the Global Positioning System to find a particular destination or even a simple Google search for defining a vocabulary word illustrates that technology will always be there for us. However, the advancement of technology brings on many unethical and moral issues throughout the world. The intake of drugs and many surgical operations all proceed with one mindset: to save patients and better improve their well-being. Today, surgeons and psychiatrists have taken account to embrace radical changes with the merging of technology. The aspect of our humanness comes to an extent whether it addresses death or mental illness. In Lauren Slater’s essay, “Who Holds the Clicker?” the advancement of medical technologies helps a patient, Mario Della Grotta to overcome obsessive-compulsive disorder better known as OCD. Mario is one of the first American psychiatric patients to undergo psychosurgery. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together,” there is an intimate connection between humans and robots through technology. Our authenticity to stand by embracing these so-called humanity changes can be controversial and

The doctor does not desire power or management to cure a patient. Instead, a doctor needs experience, passion, and the will to decide when and how to use medical technology.

Technology has been intertwined with medicine for a very long time. The more advances within technology also effects medicine, and people are experiencing advances in medicine just as quickly as they are exposed to advances in technology. The two go hand in hand with each other and some of the fears that come along with technology are not feared as much when they are able to assist within the medical world, yet the fears of artificial intelligence is something highly feared in all areas for many people. Medicine is as reliant the advances technology brings as it continues to be reliant on emotional caring of those who work in such fields, which is an area that even an artificial intelligent robot is not yet capable of accomplishing. Except,

After watching the video in class about a computer going to school, I was very fascinated and a little scared to be honest. The idea of a computer doing surgery on me did not sit right with me and I opposed the idea of a computer doctor then. However, after thinking about the possibilities of this new emerging technology I could not find the justification for opposing the idea of Watson being my doctor. My reasoning was that Watson is capable of storing far more medical information then any doctor on the planet, and will be able make rational, evidence based decisions without any biases in a shorter period of time. Not only would this save the consumer millions of dollars but more importantly it would save many lives. Watson would be far more

The hastening change toward automated medical accounts impends to depersonalize and short-circuit the training of health professionals even as it delivers them with better access to patient information (Mangan, 2009).

Healthcare organizations of the past century were designed from 17th century ideology of the universe based on the teachings of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Francis Bacon. This was a predictable and reliable world based on the viewpoint that organizations are machines and as individuals, we are merely cogs in a wheel, fulfilling a role and playing our part. However, this understanding has be eradicated by the idea that people and organizations are fluid, dynamic and living organisms. Newton 's “clockwork universe,” in which big problems can be broken down into smaller ones, analyzed, and solved by rational deduction, has strongly influenced both the practice of medicine and the leadership of organizations. But the machine metaphor lets us down badly when no part of the equation is constant, independent, or predictable. The new science of complex adaptive systems states that in order to cope with escalating complexity in health care we must abandon linear models, accept unpredictability, respect (and utilize) autonomy and creativity, and respond flexibly to emerging patterns and opportunities (Plsek & Greenhalgh, 2001).

Before, medical professionals used their skills and knowledge to make decisions for their patients but over the past years, patients’ access to information and changing culture and policies, a process of partnership is emerging [16]. Medical decision-making process has become more of a joint partnership between the physician and the patient.

The medical industry has made a lot of progress in the 21st century with robots. The CT scanner, the Aethon TUG, Bestic and Cosmobot to entertain children just to name a few. All of these robots have boosted the amount of time a doctor can spend with its patients by over 35%.

Robots are now on the forefront of the nursing profession as well. Robots are being used all over the world in various ways. At Fort Valley Hospital in Scotland Eva a hologram greets patients. I was able to watch a teleconference first hand during my clinical experience between a neonatologist who was in her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and parents of an infant in the NICU in Pomona, New Jersey to discuss the prognosis of the infant. “In Korea, a sniffer bot called KiroM5 patrols the wards detecting soiled incontinence pads and alerting nurses to help immediately” (Whyatt, 2014, p. 67). Nurse Avatars are also making the scene. For instance, Molly created by an avatar-based service called Sense.ly has been assisting with patient check in and can notify off-site staff if a patient data at check in implies that their health risk may have increased. According to Abbott and Shaw (2016), “available as a smart phone app, Molly has a three-dimensional, animated feature and a behavioral repertoire that includes, for example, subtle behaviors such as blinking and nodding” (para 15). Many patient’s and healthcare providers have voiced concern in the lack of emotion robots can provide as well as the fact that they are unable to make moral judgement calls. There

William Osler once said “The good physician treats the disease; The great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” When I think of the field of medicine, I am compelled to understand the truth of the open door that I am inspired to walk through. It is not just my passion that drives and motivates me it is the responsibility to leave a legacy of service and dedication.

I have chosen Doctor Power. Having worked for a doctor starting in the early 1990’s and continuing to work side-by-side them in my current position, I can clearly see the vast change in not only the way a doctor cares for a patient, but also in the attitude of the doctors’ toward their patient’s care because of government rules and regulations.