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To: zzpat who wrote (68264)	4/24/2018 4:19:08 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361175

Radiology and then Pathology are the two canaries. Legal issues will protect them for awhile, but not forever. If Mexico was awake, they would set up clinics on the border.

To: zzpat who wrote (68264)	4/24/2018 6:29:58 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361175

Chemo is poison. Oncologists don’t just take off doing their own things. Protocols are tightly controlled. In addition, minuscule quantities can cost thousands of dollars, so waste cannot be tolerated. The last couple of oncology practices I worked in we interfaced the chemo drug storage unit to the accounting system such that dispensing was tightly controlled according to the required protocol and automatically sent to the billing system. That was probably about 20 years ago, and I’m sure this process is even more highly automated today. Machines will not be making chemo decisions anytime soon, although they already provide lots of information. I recently had a DNA test that was used to determine the aggressiveness of my cancer as a guide to whether I should have surgery or just watch it. That is a pretty weighty role already. Digital Signal Processing which transformed tumor images into four other standard views into parametric MRIs were also considered by the oncologist along with certain blood tests. When it is you you want the doctor to have the information but at the end of the day he’s going to be doing the cutting, not the robot. That’s not going to change anytime soon, although in the late 90s the popular surgery robot manufacturer showed a prototype at conventions where the surgeon could control it with voice commands. I think surgeons are far more circumspect about it these days than to be so easily impressed.