Electronic Providers: The Push-Button Physician
In 1960, the scientist and illustrator Athelstan Spilhaus depicted a graphic future of digital medicine for his regular Sunday comic strip “Our New Age.” Soon, Spilhaus claimed, patients would be able to hook themselves up to computers, push buttons to answer questions about their symptoms, have their key vital functions measured by sensors, and send that information to a central processing unit. In the blink of an eye, “a diagnostic computer will receive...
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