The fourth years counted down the days. Braced ourselves for the worst.
But nobody could have prepared us for what happened when the day came.
They packed, tight, into the common room, still excited about their day’s learning at 5pm in the afternoon. Their endless chatter of cannulas and pneumonia and heart murmurs filled what was, for a week, a space that had been solely ours.
The third years had arrived, and the common room was already theirs.
In a profession where we spend our lives looking after people, it’s ironic that we as medical students don’t pay enough attention to our own health. Perhaps the most important step you can take to maintaining good health is getting yourself a GP. Why?
Doctors will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI).
For the majority of people, reading this sentence triggers a visceral feeling – “surely that will never happen” or “that’s impossible!”. But it’s not a statement that is simply fanciful, nor is it a statement based on blind techno-optimism. Barring the chance of some event that renders humanity extinct, it is safe to say that technology will continue to progress towards human-level intelligence until it is eventually developed. Continue reading
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