Tag: Film and Series

Clinical sci-fi films make the future of medicine visible. From Gattaca and genetic selection to Ex Machina and AI, these films explore healthcare, ethics, technology and the human body in ways that feel surprisingly close to real medicine.

In part two of this Star Wars and medicine series, I look beyond prosthetics and telemedicine and ask a bigger question: what happens when robotics, AI, digital twins and personalised planning begin to work together? This is where science fiction starts to feel very close to real healthcare.

Every now and then, you watch something in science fiction and realise that what once looked completely impossible is beginning to look slightly familiar. Not fully real, of course. We are not yet walking into hospitals staffed by elegant medical droids who can repair a severed hand in minutes, and…