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During the last century, medicine has witnessed amazing progress. Scientific achievements in diagnosis, pharmaceuticals and surgical techniques have increased human life and once offered the treatment of deadly diseases. Nevertheless, there has been a contradiction in addition to these victories: the more technological medicine becomes, the more mechanical and unusual that patients are often felt. Doctors, who were once respected as fitness, who attached scientific knowledge with human sympathy, is considered as fast as technicians working in strict systems of performance, specialization and protocol. Ironically, this change has made it easier to imagine the future where artificial intelligence agents, rather than human physicians, play a central role in diagnosis and treatment.
Although AI has an undeniable ability to increase performance and accuracy, its rise exposes a basic truth: which makes the medicine deeply meaningful and healing cannot be reduced to the algorithm or protocol. Humanity and comprehensive aspects of medicine – sympathy, decision regarding context and understanding of patients as a whole. If the medical profession is to resist the total mechanization and maintain their humanity, doctors must re -claim a comprehensive approach that the patient prefers as a person rather than a case file.
The mechanism of medicines did not happen overnight. It was the product of historical changes in medical training, institutional pressure and growing technology. Modern hospitals and clinics are formed like an industrial system, patients return from registration desk to laboratories, experts’ offices and once again. Doctors often overwhelm the large burden and administrative tasks of patients, instead of engaging in meaningful dialogue with patients, they spend more time entering data into electronic health records.
This piece of care – where the cardiologists treat the heart, the skin and psychologists make the brain mind. Patients are no longer seen as a coordinated creature with integrated physical, emotional and social life. Instead, they are seen as a combination of symptoms Imposed on the standard treatment protocol. This kind of approach certainly enables health -related health, but it snatches its comprehensive sensitivity medicines.
In this environment, the physician’s relationship is valued by thousands of years of healing. Appointments are made quickly, sympathy is very low, and the patient’s sophisticated experience often goes away. Clinical eyes have become more about the screen than the living reality of the disease. When Madison loses its human communication, it is at risk of separating from any other form of mechanical services.
If a medical profession is to refrain from being eclipse, he should re -claim his human -friendly roots. This does not mean rejecting technology. Rather, this means to use technology as a device while centering care.
This is the same mechanization that shows admission to AI’s medicines natural, even welcome. If the role of a physician is reduced to input large -scale symptoms, check guidelines and suggest the standard menu, then the algorithm can perform the same tasks with maximum performance and accuracy. AII systems trained on wide datases can indicate medical image samples compared to most radiologists, prepare patients based on patients’ dates, and predict the risk of data precision disease.
In fact, many patients already interact with a system like AI when booking online appointments, receiving automatic follow -up or using chat boats for basic trigge. The more the medicine is transmitted with transactions and data, the more patients may feel indifferent to whether their advice comes from a human or machine. It should be a warning work for the profession: If the doctor restricts himself to mechanical tasks, he will be replaced. But if they embrace their irreparable human actions, they can explain their place in a technically increased medical system.
The disease is not just a biological dysfunction. It is also interrupted by the story of one’s life, identity and well -being. A comprehensive approach recognizes that healing also involves the brain, body and soul as well as a social environment in which the patient lives. Consider the easy hearing process. When a doctor listens carefully, patients feel more recognized than their symptoms. This verification itself can be cured, reduces anxiety and promotes confidence. AI, no matter how advanced, cannot provide real sympathy. It can imitate the conversation, but it cannot understand the distress in human sense. Similarly, there are deep human dimensions of cultural sensitivity, moral reasoning and maintenance of moral decisions that deny codification.
Moreover, many health conditions are linked to lifestyle, family dynamics and socio -economic conditions. A doctor who fully practices these complications completely rather than focusing on the disease. They can consider the level of stress, social support and emotional flexibility – factors that do not play a small role in recovery. AI can take action on health records, but it cannot sit with a sad patient, cannot satisfy a troubled family or help anyone find the meaning of their illness.
If a medical profession is to refrain from being eclipse, he should re -claim his human -friendly roots. This does not mean rejecting technology. Rather, this means to use technology as a device while centering care. Medical Education will have to remove its emphasis from the Route Memorial and Technical Specialization towards sympathy, communication skills, cultural awareness and cultivation. Healthcare agencies also have to compete with a numerous drive that reduces human interaction. Long consultation, inter -formal teamwork and integration of mental health and social support can restore a comprehensive approach to medical practice. The important thing is that doctors should admit that healing is not always about treatment. Sometimes, the role of the physician is to suffer with patients, offer dignity and sympathy even when medical solutions are limited.
The mechanization of medicine has eliminated the patient’s relationship with patients and opened the door to step as an alternative to AI. The thing that truly heals the medicine – a humanitarian approach – is beyond the reach of the algorithm. The future of medicine should not be a competition between humans and machines, but should be a partnership where technology helps doctors to treat them individually in human character. By re -claiming a comprehensive approach, doctors can ensure that the drug is not only effective but also humanity.
The author is a published humanity. She teaches at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, and the National University of Medical Sciences. He is also a Red Cross/ Red Crescent young man who is as a trainer’s agent for changing behavior.