Technology And Medicine Promise And Peril - 974 Words

Technology in Medicine: Promise and Peril Saint Augustine once said, â€Å"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.† The profession of medicine can be traced back to the 5th century BCE this signifies how important the relationship between a patient and the doctor is. The fact that this profession until now stands out, let alone speaks for itself. The fact that when someone speaks about a doctor that treated them everyone in the room pays their respect. The relationship of a doctor and a patient isn’t something that was recently created, but rather a†¦show more content†¦In the future, of course, this allows for a more diverse and capable environment resulting in doctors performing a surgery even at home. This might affect the doctors and patients relationship in a negative way, due to the fact the patient can t see th e doctor. However, This will in fact limit the fault rate in surgeries and gives the patient a better chance of surviving a specific surgery. As technology advances in Qatar, people tend to negate little symptoms and â€Å"Google them† instead of referring to their doctor about it. Which in many cases creates a conflict as they start to question the doctor’s reliability. As a matter of fact although technology has created many benefits to the medical society and the doctors, it has also created many problems within the society itself. Technology is so rapidly increasing that people keep forgetting the importance of their physical body, since they’re so focused in their virtual life. â€Å"In an average evening of primetime television, you’ll see more violence than you’ll see in your entire life.† As a result, â€Å"we see nightmares, bedwetting and even post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in children who have actually never witnessed violence. (1)†. Bioengineering,