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Would you let a robot operate on you without assistance from a human surgeon? How about a computer diagnosing your symptoms without any oversight from your GP?

While we all accept technology is increasingly an integral part of healthcare, scenarios such as these can still seem rather unnerving.

Medical_2It doesn’t help when prominent medical commentators such as Bertalan Meskó, aka The Medical Futurist, talk about artificial intelligence (AI) as the “stethoscope of the 21st Century”.

The truth is AI is probably already a lot better than we mere humans at predicting health events before they happen.

Don’t take our word for it. Researchers at Nottingham University recently published research that showed, based on data from no fewer 378,256 patients, a self-taught AI could predict 7.6% more cardiovascular events before they actually happened.

While AI continues to make its way into surgeries and hospitals all over the world, s1jobs confidently predicts medical professionals and patients have nothing to fear.

The future will most certainly be a happy harmony of AI computer-coded insight and human hands-on healing.

This means the skills you’ll need, if you want to go for one of the many medical roles on s1jobs, must straddle both technology and these all-important people skills.

 

Empathy

We might put cute faces on robots and give computers pet names but it’s only humans who really care about outcomes in healthcare.

This is why robots and AI will be incredibly useful but can never take the place of nurses, doctors and carers who feel compassion and are emotionally invested in helping others.

 

Focus

While computers can specialise in algorithms in certain areas of medicine and healthcare, human medics specialise in people – and bring their everything to helping them.

And the healthcare sector offers a vast range of specialisms to suit every kind of personality.

For example, there’s paediatrics for those who respond well to children or A&E admissions for those who work well under pressure.

 

Action

Computers’ brains are arguably faster at number crunching to come up with a diagnosis. However the human brain can never be beaten when it comes to making fast – and potentially life-saving – decisions.

A clear and calm mind, as well as the ability to make good calls in pressurised situations, is a human trait to be proud of.

 

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