What is it about?

Currently, in medical practice, the method of "trial and error" is often used: doctors prescribe drugs to patients and observe whether it will help or not. If it does not help, other courses of treatment are prescribed. But, representatives of technical disciplines call this research method experimenting on natural objects, in our case, on patients. But it is immoral to experiment on living people! Representatives of technical disciplines have long since, where possible, moved from experimenting with natural objects to experimenting with their computer models. On computer screens, engineers observe what these or those technical solutions will lead to in the future, choosing the most optimal ones. In our opinion, our robot-doctor will help solve this ethical problem. It allows you to refuse to experiment with living people. Just like representatives of technical disciplines, the robot-doctor creates a mathematical computer model of the patient. On this model, the robot-doctor conducts virtual computer experiments. Using this computer model, he predicts the onset and development of diseases over time. He tries different courses of treatment and prevention of diseases and observes what this will lead to in the future. Thus, through virtual computer experimentation, the robot-doctor selects the most effective drugs and gives the most effective recommendations.

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Why is it important?

We have shown that the use of dynamic intelligent systems and robotic doctors equipped with such systems will solve the main ethical problem of modern medicine. Doctors will stop experimenting on living people. Using robots, doctors will build computer models of patients and perform virtual experiments on them. Doctors will see the consequences of the prescribed courses of treatment. Based on this, doctors will be able to select the optimal medications and recommendations individually for each patient.

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I believe that the development and application of the approach proposed in the article will revolutionize medical science, raise it to a qualitatively new level, and turn medicine from head to foot!

Leonid Yasnitskiy
Perm State University

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This page is a summary of: Robot-Doctor: What Can It Be?, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33491-8_20.
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