A future without doctors?

Is it possible that AI (Artificial Intelligence) could replace doctors and nurses in the future?

From BBC Learning English: 6 minute English, link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english

（Group member 楊杰恩、陳奕勳）

Main idea

In 2017, a team of researchers announced that they had invented an AI system that can analyse the photos of freckle and diagnose as accurately as twenty-one leading dermatologists whether it is cancerous or just a normal freckle, which re-open the debate of the replaceability of doctors.

Connections

Although we don't have freckle problems, it is a thought-provoking question whether doctors will be replaced by machines. Even doctors, a traditionally high-qualification career, might lose jobs. We shouldn't take the alert too easy.

Reflections

Even if the machine seems to be able to judge some conditions more accurately than some doctors, I think these judgments made by the machine still need to be guided by the rules of thumb accumulated by the doctor.

Related vocabularies:

bedside manner
the kind and caring behaviour shown by doctors and nurses to people who are ill

freckle
small brown or ginger spot on someone’s skin, especially a person with pale skin

cancerous
involving cancer

diagnosis
a doctor’s judgement about what someone’s particular sickness or disease is, made after examining them

rule of thumb
a useful and practical but approximate way of doing or measuring something

where, how, what, why on earth...?
an emphatic way of forming a statement or question to show frustration, anger, surprise or disbelief

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