Robotic surgery, AI, digital twins, VR training, 3D printing, advanced prosthetics, and wearable sensors once sounded like ideas from science fiction. Now many of them are becoming part of modern healthcare.
Tag: futuristic medicine
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Inside Intuitive: A Small Glimpse Into the Future of Surgery
Recently visited Intuitive near Reading and got to try the da Vinci 5 console. One of those moments where the future suddenly stops feeling far away. As someone interested in surgical innovation and cancer surgery, it was exciting thinking about where all of this may lead next.
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Anatomage Table: How 3D Anatomy Could Transform Medical Education
After seeing the Anatomage Table at the Future of Surgery Festival in Birmingham, I finally had the chance to use it properly. This interactive 3D anatomy system made me think differently about how anatomy, radiology, histology, and medical education could come together in one learning space.
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Films That Make the Future of Medicine Visible
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.
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The Sci-Fi Medical Ideas in Star Wars Already Shaping Medicine (Part 2)
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.
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The Sci-Fi Medical Ideas in Star Wars Already Shaping Medicine
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…
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Clinical Sci-Fi: A Beginner’s Guide to Futuristic Medicine in Books, Film, and Real Life
Clinical sci-fi sits in that fascinating space between what medicine already is and what medicine might become. It is science fiction with healthcare at its centre. It is about future hospitals, artificial intelligence, surgical robots, digital twins, genetic engineering, prosthetic limbs, pandemics, biotechnology, medical ethics, and all the strange and…