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A Future Without Doctors?

Can you imagine a future without doctors? Oxford University economist Dan Susskind, an expert on artificial intelligence, says we’re at the start of a medical revolution.

Can you imagine a future without doctors? We’re in the midst of a robotics and Artificial Intelligence revolution. Many jobs humans currently do will in future be carried out by machine? But what about those in the medical profession? AI will be of assistance, but surely we’ll always need surgeons, doctors, and nurses? Well, the Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind is not so sure. He believes that many of the tasks currently carried out by doctors will soon be performed by machine. So can doctors survive by reinventing themselves?

Presenter David Edmonds
Producer Ben Cooper

(Image: Operating Theatre, Credit: Getty)

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