do you think doctors will be replaced by biomedical engineers in the future.....?

Question

doctors or the biomedical engineers who will survive.....as doctors are becoming more dependent on machines for their investigations......and machines are faster than human beings

Answer 1

Perhaps a long way down the line, there are quite a lot of things in medicine that are hard to design machines for, because they require complex decisions. And machines can be somewhat unpredictable. My housemate (a computer scientist) told me about a particular machine used in a hospital that, due to a programming fault, gave people a lethal dose of radiation randomly.

Answer 2

You know it is a strange thing (and a useful thing) that what humans find easy is extremely hard to do with a computer, on the other hand there are things that are easy with a computer, but humans have a hard time doing. I think for quite a long time in the future neither is going to replace the other in areas that they do best.

You know I'm an expert in computers, and I think that when computers get to the point where they don't need someone like me then they will be ready for such a complex task. I don't base that on my great skill I base it on the fact that to program computers today and do a good job of it, you have to be a person that can break down a complex problem into a very simple steps, because that is what a computer needs. So when when the computers can start taking instructions from say an artist or a doctor, or someone not trained to make it simple for the computer, then a lot of people might be out of a job.

At times I think what is so hard, we ask an expert get what steps they would take, put them in a computer and bingo, doctor.

But then I remember what I have to go through when a program isn't doing something right and someone wants you to put down the steps to fix it. They tell you what is happenning you make some guesses at what it is, you collect data, back and forth, and so many branches, so many possibilities, I realize that if I think that I'm going to put things down on a piece a paper and someone is going to read it, there is no way they will pick up the reasons, so unless I can see all possible out comes, it is impossible to script an expert at troubleshooting, and that is for a computer, and a human is more complex...

And computers don't think, they follow the scripting (the steps) that a human has set down for them.

And certainly in research this is even more true.

Answer 3

Just because doctors are relying more on machines doesn't mean that a biomedical engineer can take their place. These are not only making the doctors job easier but also more precise. You still need a doctor to diagnose the problem. Doctors are familiar with what drug does what. How much insulin to give a patient when their blood sugar is to high. Biomedical engineers are not educated in those departments. I am not saying that it is impossible. It is just asking to much of one person to learn all those functions. I would not trust a biomedical engineer to perform heart surgery on my mother or even a hysterectomy simply because that is not what they spent 8 years studying and 4 years in training to do.

Answer 4

There is ZERO chance of that happening. I think you , of course, mean Medical Doctors, not Phd's

A medical doctor is like a "technician" , They evaluate the problem, go to a standard protocall such as a pill treatment, or whatever and then attempt to eleviate or cure the patient.

Medical Doctors usually do not do basic research, that in medicine is done by the Phd. Surprise You??

The basic reserch is called science and medicine is the practical application of science.

The docs will survive, millions of diseases out there yet to be treated, and yet to be conquered by the Phd's .