Mrs. Elisa Carter

Changes these days in health care, they gradually happen. Years ago, technology was there but it wasn't very special. The doctors/physicians who started everything and the nurses followed. Today there are all kinds of monitors and machines to aid the medical profession but what one needs is dynamic interaction, for example, if you observe, there's incorrect breathing that hasn't yet registered on the monitor, you can make a decision or do something else, you cannot substitute those charts for the human interaction.
There have been some shifts in the way we address patients inside and outside the organizations. We talk about people as though they are a disease – the patient with diabetes, the heart failure in room 3, the one with the broken leg in room 4. That's not good, The robotic technology is trying to be very smart to interact with each other, it would never exchange the warmth, the feeling.
Everyone thinks that the MRI is a breakthrough of biological diagnostics, but there is more to come. The MRI is a breakthrough indeed, but it is made to combine with other therapeutic interventions, e.g. cancer. In cancer, you can see the tumor, via the MRI, but you need a precision beam to pinpoint the cancer and try to radiate it to reduce or remove it. They are doing a research, where they try to use a proton, a beam to pinpoint where the cancer is, in combination to MRI, to at least get the tumor the right way without damaging the healthy tissue around it. This will come out in a couple of years. Another thing they are doing with MRI is cyber-knife, which is also a beam but stronger than laser, it is not a knife, not invasive.
They have also developed a diabetic station - you can also connect it to your computer. You put your hands in, it takes the blood pressure, blood sugar level, makes the analysis and it is transported to you, it's self managed, you can do it on your own.

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• Mic interaction between the woman touch/intuition, for example, it you observe, there’s incorrect breathing that hasn’t yet registered on the monitor, you can make a decision or do something else, you cannot substitute those charts for the human interaction.