Re: Chronicles of Extreme Future: On Demand Medicine

benchik wrote:

On May 8, 12:18 am, djhe...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
In article
<2d969ac3-f8fb-4b20-8920-000ec2fed...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Les Berkley  <woge...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On May 7, 9:40=A0am, benchik <Alexanderbezhe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve has had a long day. He is tired despite having taken the
anti- >> fatigue pill =93Alert=94 to get through the last web
conference on the >> company=92s newest video unit. A happy hour
beer-fest at an Alfa lounge >> sounds tempting, but just after
leaving the building; a sharp chest >> pain stops him mid step. The
pain finally subsides, and he quickly >> speaks to his cell phone,
activating his personal health record by >> uttering the word,
=93Emergency=94. >> Read more
athttp://blog.fictionthis.comorcollaborate and write with >> others
athttp://fictionthis.com

Wow! It's really good to know that there will be 'web
conferences' on 'video units' in the Extreme Future. I was afraid
they might be replaced with an advanced technology. Nice to hear
that 'cell phones' will be with us too. Unless he means 'cellular
phones' implemented on a nanotech level... Pills and beer-fests
too. Gosh.

Maybe it's the Extreme Future equivalent of the SCA or the ACW
groups, striving to create the environment of the past?

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djhe...@xxxxxxxxxxx

Immediately, Steve is routed via the internet to his health plan?s
Clinical emergency centre for diagnosis. This Involves answering a
series of yes or no questions about the symptoms and vital signs asked
by a Med-Tech on duty computer. Steve places a finger on the screen of
his cell phone where his bio-signature converts his bio-scan signals
and sends them instantly to the Emerg-Med Team via virtual Net Centre
many time zones away.

The GE Cyberdoc decides that Steve?s condition maybe acute cardiac
ischemia and dispatches a clinic mobile to his exact location. En
route to the nearest emergency-care unit, a battery of tests,
including another bio-scan, are performed and transmitted immediately
through a wireless devise in real time to a lab for interpretation.

By the time the local emergency team reaches Steve, The doctor on duty
has the results, along with the second opinion by a cardiac specialist
on duty in Bangalore, India. Steve?s Personal health card has also
provided his medical history and genetic predisposition to the on-duty
doctor.
The doctor has authorized a several categories of treatment for the
condition. On the split screen, the duty doctor shows Steve
holographic 3-D colour images of the vessel blockage via a microscopic
camera inserted into his bloodstream.

The doctor recommends injecting an army of nano-scrubbers to clean out
the arteries.

This is where it starts being futuristic; everything up till now has
either been already in existence, or likely to be just around the
corner.

I don't consider this _extreme_ future, though.

Steve is asked to rest a while the physician takes a
virtual tour of his bloodstream to code in the correct markers for
making a non-invasive procedure a success. Once deployed and completed
with their mission, the nano-scrubbers dissolve harmlessly.

The actual operation takes only 8 minutes and Steve is discharged
shortly afterward. Before leaving he?s given a customized holographic
health disk with analysis of what dietary or lifestyle changes are
needed for him to avoid another such episode. All info is uploaded to
his virtual agent and his home doctors.

An always-on wireless internet accessible wristband will unobtrusively
monitor Steve?s condition for the next couple of days but he feels
fine as he strolls out of the neighborhood care unit. In fact, he
still has time to make happy hour. He just has to watch what he
orders. His updated personal health record may warm him from ordering
beverages that are not on his diet. Steve may hear this message:
?Light Nutri-beer suggested ? and only two servings.



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