July 20198 IN MY V EWIn the middle ages, doctors were physicians who practised medicine from ivory towers as intellectuals who refused to get their hands dirty, so they left the surgery to barbers, who were the practitioners who went into the battlefield to sew up wounds, amputate limbs and did the dirty, bloody operations that the doctors at the time felt were beneath their station.How times have changed ­ today, surgeons are highly specialised doctors who would now argue that they are the doctors who can do surgical procedures that their WILL THE RISE OF AI MAKE US HUMAN DOCTORS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES, OR BE THE NEXT PHASE OF OUR EVOLUTION?BY PROFESSOR ERWIN LOH, GROUP CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, ST VINCENT'S HEALTH AUSTRALIA
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