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Everything is going digital, including healthcare. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are trending just as much in the medical field as anywhere else – from the ubiquitous wearable health monitors to the more extraordinary robotic surgery. Now, take a giant leap into the future and meet the medical tricorder.
The prevalence of ‘incidental maggots’ is well documented in World War I, particularly in the case of wounded foot soldiers who, after spending weeks in the trenches, were transferred to field hospitals for treatment. Their foul-smelling dressings led surgeons to expect the worst decomposition and infection. What they found instead were perfectly clean wounds. Incidental maggots had been at work, removing the dead flesh, destroying the bacteria and promoting healing.
The story of a doctor’s mobile app that brings instant critical specialist advice to rural areas of South Africa.
Stem cells have been given the sobriquet ‘Mother of Regeneration’ for good reason. These building blocks of the human body hold tremendous promise in the understanding and treatment of a range of diseases, injuries and other health- related conditions.
3pm Monday afternoon: May 1953 The patient is wheeled into the tutorial room of 5th year medical students. He is pallid against the pale blue hospital gown. Slightly apprehensive. The students wait expectantly for the tutorial to begin. Professor Fransie Van Zyl, an esteemed surgeon who was to become the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Stellenbosch, gives brilliant tutorials.