Automated Doctors From the Future

It was almost 28 years ago. Still dizzy from the life i lead in Romania. Building programs, drinking, movies, most important Italian channels on TV, not a care in the world. Except i didn't want to die in that apartment at the 4th floor in a condo out of many decent ones built by the communists in Bacău, a bit crummy to my taste.

In 1994 i applied to the Green Card lottery. I remember i wrote the application on my 286 PC and printed it on a CDC clone printer made in Romania i used for my accounting programs. I won and next year i landed in Alameda St., Dallas, Oregon, in a small rented house with my ex colleague from Bacău and his family. The extraordinary end of summer mellow dry weather with the Pacific blue bright light in central Oregon. Nothing to tell me that was the beginning of a personal hell that lasted to this day.

One of those dream days i went with Julian to a drug store in Dallas. I think it was called differently, nowadays it's Rite Aid. He made me stick my hand in one of those automated, free blood pressure monitors. 120/80 of course because of the athletic life i was leading there. I mean, besides 10 hours a day at a computer monitor, much walking to my clients  and stores because i had no car which i was craving so much.

Believe it or not, i was not familiar with the numbers. It was very uncommon to people my age from Romania of those days to be looking for those kinda things.

Moving in time. 2022. The Expanse. The best ever Sci-Fi movie. And i know what i'm talking about, i'm a big fan of those. Very realistic in projecting the near future (though still impossible without a breakthrough in space transportation). Good looking actors. Convincing evolution of language. Cinematography to match the rest. The fantastic part of it, the rings etc. however, not to my taste.

But the cuffs from the future. On ship automatic medical devices that would tell you how much you have to live, can't find right now the picture with that scene, main character, forgot the name, i remember the device told her about the collapse of her endocrine system, untreatable (at the time), 5 more years to live. Belters. Whatever.

Treat you by known procedures in known diseases from loaded databases. Obviously at least semantically inspired and an extension of the one in the picture above.

Never realized those are doable with today's knowledge and technology minus the bureaucracy and prejudices and lobbyists and stuff until the last few days.

I once wrote a short entry about administering antibiotics through patches that is being studied nowadays. Patches are known for a long time, for administering nicotine or other drugs or medicines.

There is an even better way than patches. You can administer a medicine with a surgical rubber glove. Wash your hand thoroughly, put a glove on and slip your medicine in. Any tablet or capsule  (broken) that is not time released will completely get into your blood stream within an hour or so, only about 2-3 times more or in higher concentration than orally. It is called osmosis. It happens in the same way it happens in your intestine though it does not have to fight (and kill or eradicate) the intestinal microbial flora and your liver. Venous blood from your arm goes to your lungs first and then it goes to all the organs in your body.

The opposite. Let's say the machine can isolate or seal a piece of your arm with a couple of inflatable rubber rings, wash it and keep it warm to the point it perspires. Your perspiration contains everything your plasma does except of course for living white and red cells in blood, maybe in different concentrations, but with the necessary known corrections and correlations made by AI you can probably do all the tests in the world, within a few minutes.

Then AI can administer drugs within the next hour or so, a one dose antibiotic from the future by example with half life a week or the whole time of recommended treatment and then you can repeat the tests and tell how much or what else you still need, while watching a movie. Without even the need for the barbaric procedure of puncturing a vein.

You call an ambulance. They come and stick your arm in one of those. By the time you get to the hospital they know everything they need to or you even got the needed stabilizing treatment. Same when going to the ER etc..

I always envied the guys from the future with their marvelous devices. What do you think.

11:20 Concur to that!

11:21 Do not harm the wine, try with beer or soda!