Human-less Doctors

I posed this question to the people following the latest Design for Health class I attended at Stanford.

For me, my diagnosis is already set in stone. I have type 1 diabetes. But for other situations, for other people, would you be comfortable receiving an accurate diagnosis without having to actually see a person?

Sure, Dr. Google is a term we throw around, somewhat in jest, but what if Dr. Google became a reality? What if you didn’t have to speak to a person, sit in a waiting room, fight traffic to make your appointment on time?

What do you think about that?

To help seed the possible discussion, here are some of the responses I received when I asked the #MedX crowd…

Thoughts?

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