In the year 2525.............................
The lack of use of handwriting must be having a deleterious effect on the development of fine motor skills.
I get his point. I once saw video of a woman having knee replacement surgery. It was shockingly mechanical. Reminded me of every car and home repair job I had ever done.
We heard this 2.5 years ago at our son’s graduation from the Fire Academy. They used to get recruits from the trades - people who knew their way around tools and machinery. Now they get screen jockeys who don’t know which end of a hammer to pick up. But they are really good at mowing people down in Grand Theft Auto. Just the sort you want behind the wheel of the fire engine and behind the hose.
“lack of hobbies”
I was looking for a new hobby. Surgery? Hmm.
Roger Kneebone?
Is this a John Semmens satire/hoax?
It’ll just have to all be done via cursor/touchpad, etc.
Cool. sort of. that means more room in the surgery for my kid. He can sew even stitches and precisely carve a pumpkin and won the annual award in his woodworking class. He isn’t in the medical field yet, but when he is, I am confident of his dexterity and precision.
I think today’s parents are missing out if they want the xbox to raise their kid. Part of the fun of parenting is rediscovering the ordinary tasks of life through teaching them to your child. Why wouldn’t someone want to be in the kitchen or the garage with their kid?
I once looked into med school.
It is set up so the primary gateway is your undergrad GPA. If it isn’t sufficient, then no extenuating circumstance, life experience, or other skills are considered. From what I was told, you could have multiple advanced degrees with high marks - only your undergrad coursework is considered and it’s the same for Physician Assistant programs.
My BS GPA wasn’t all that great for several reasons. One of the schools I looked at basically told me the only option was to go back and get a couple more bachelors degrees with very high GPAs and if I got enough to average out with my first, then they might consider me.
I don’t know if this has changed, but if it’s still the case, one can easily see how it would preclude a huge swath of the population who might otherwise consider a medical career and who are more likely to have the skills this doctor finds wanting in his students.
It would be ironic if all our high tech devices led to another “Dark Ages.”
I had a discussion about this the other day when I was told that they no longer dissect real animals in high school anymore. My argument was that surgical skill was going to diminish because it’s not weeding out those who have a skill love and passion for this type of fine manual dexterity and skill from those who don’t.
Good luck learning how to tie knots in stainless steel suture on your IPhone.
"Don't worry, 'Scro!"
Tech ain’t everything
Most surgery will be robotic sooner than we think. I just had back surgery of replacement and fusion. My surgeon is outstanding. Some patients are not so lucky.
As a retired educator, I am all too aware of the vast overuse of keyboard entertainments vs. playing with real toys. The makers of computer games and such claim that their use improves hand and eye coordination. Yeah, between eyes and a mouse. I absolutely believe that there is NO substitute for hands-on learning. Only by actually touching, feeling, and manipulating materials will a person learn of their consistency, weight, and true nature. Despite the rise of “robo surgery”, the wielder of the setup still has to intimately know the physical nature of what they’re cutting and stitching. You don’t get that from a keyboard and a mouse.
Doing things same as in Florence Nightingale era
In the USA we have Intuitive Surgery:
Give them four hours and check back to see what they have constructed.