Deep medicine ...  Navigating the intersection of technology, cognition and ethics in the digital age of medicine

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Published: 2023-12-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCC.2023.v39i3.1520
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Deep medicine, artificial intelligence, technology, cognition, ethics

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D Gopalan
Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
M Pienaar
Division of Paediatric Critical Care, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State; Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Futures, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
S Brokensha
Department of English, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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The digital expansion in medicine and healthcare has been immense and extremely valuable. The biggest concern in the face of this inevitable growth is how we manage to keep contact with our patients and preserve the human touch so essential in healing. Digital healthcare should not be about technology replacing clinicians. Instead, it should be about augmenting and supplementing healthcare providers to improve the ways in which we deliver personalised healthcare. It is vital that we focus on how we can revitalise the patient-clinician relationship in this digital age.





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Deep medicine ...  Navigating the intersection of technology, cognition and ethics in the digital age of medicine. (2023). Southern African Journal of Critical Care, 39(3), e1520. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCC.2023.v39i3.1520

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